The Social Development Critic for the BC NDP is scolding the Christy Clark government over the recent bus pass fee for disabled residents.
The province began charging the new fee on September 1st after raising the disability assistance rates to $983 per month which was the first increase in 9 years.
Michelle Mungall believes the move was predictable after the fee was announced in the provincial budget.
“We told them this is exactly what was going to happen that people were living in such poverty they would give up their bus pass, their means of inclusion in their community so they could take that extra money to buy food and now it’s happened.”
Over 3,500 people have given up their pass instead of paying the fee. Read the full story.