Introduction to the Toolkit
It is essential that provinces and territories exempt the CDB from clawing back social assistance. This modification requires governments to add the CDB to the list of exempt unearned sources of income in the social assistance regulations. However, by default, social assistance will be clawed back if no action is taken.
To ensure that people with disabilities will receive the full value of the CDB, we need to request meetings with and advocate to provincial/territorial ministers, influential politicians, and senior civil servants.
This toolkit contains several documents meant to help you advocate and engage with government decision-makers to prevent clawbacks related to the new CDB in your province or territory. The documents are designed to be used together but may be used individually if it better suits your needs. We also encourage you to tailor the documents to your organization.
The toolkit contains:
- Instruction sheet on how to use the toolkit
- Contact list and FAQ that can be used by all jurisdictions
- Letter to government that you can send to the government official with a clear call-to-action
- Meeting handout that you can hand to the person you’re meeting with and talking to
- Talking points that you can use to prepare for your meetings with decision-makers
- Flyer that you can use to inform the public and for a general campaign
- Social media shareables that you can use on your preferred social media channel
- Maytree policy brief on benefit interaction that you can use for background reading