Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) voted unanimously to boost funding for a seniors' support in the community.<\/p>\n
The Senior Relief Fund's limit has increased from $3,500 to $5,000 annually. The relief fund was created in 2016 and supports community members over the age of 55 who need financial support (rent, utilities, housing improvement, etc.).<\/p>\n
Six Nations Health Services (SNHS) says that the increased limit was approved by council during the previous fiscal year, but it did go back to the current rate of $3,500 at the beginning of this fiscal year. SNHS say they have been communicating with community members and advocating for the $5,000 limit to be permanently increased.<\/p>\n
Coun. Audrey Powless-Bomberry supported the increase to the relief fund, saying it's a really good idea.\"<\/p>\n
\"The cost is continuing to rise and when you want to get a furnace, ramps, air conditioning, anything of the big ticket items that you live on, it's far more than $3,500.\"<\/p>\n
Coun. Helen Miller says she would like to see SNEC look to hire someone to run the program and advocate.<\/p>\n
\"That person could also be an elderly advocate for other issues with elderly people.\"<\/p>\n
Sherri Lyn Hill-Pierce agreed that SNEC needs to build up the staffing within the relief fund and even creating an elders department.<\/p>\n
\"I think we need an elders department because my concern is the same as what Helen's is and that is that it's scattered everywhere,\" Hill-Pierce said.<\/p>\n
\"I think we really need to beef up dealing with the elders and put them under one [department] and give them some continuum of care because it just seems too scattered and that's not fair.\"<\/p>\n
SNEC approved the permanent increase of the yearly maximum limit for for community members registered with the Senior Relief Fund to $5,000 during the Sept. 18 General Finance meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n For the full CJKS story listen below:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) voted unanimously to boost funding for a seniors’ support in the community. The Senior Relief Fund’s limit has increased from $3,500 to $5,000 annually. The relief fund was created in 2016 and supports community members over the age of 55 who need financial support (rent, utilities, housing improvement, etc.). Six…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":156310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223],"tags":[30547,24049,7743,17825,18137],"radio":[13052],"origine":[267,13048,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181442,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181152\/revisions\/181442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181152"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=181152"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=181152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}