{"id":31369,"date":"2021-01-08T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=31369"},"modified":"2021-01-07T23:03:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T04:03:19","slug":"income-assistance-and-disability-rates-dont-reflect-the-needs-of-all-our-citizens-minister-of-poverty-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/income-assistance-and-disability-rates-dont-reflect-the-needs-of-all-our-citizens-minister-of-poverty-reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Income assistance and disability rates &#8220;don&#8217;t reflect the needs of all our citizens&#8221;: Minister of Poverty Reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Tan Mei Xi<\/em><br \/>\n---<br \/>\nBC's Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction is clear: he doesn't think the income assistance and disability rates in BC are high enough.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn't mean, however, that Minister Nicholas Simons is committing to raising the rates.<\/p>\n<p>\"I don't make promises that I can't unilaterally keep myself,\" said Simons, \"but.. .we've heard the Premier and the Finance Minister talk about the desire to increase the rates.\"<\/p>\n<p>When asked about criticism that the Province's poverty reduction targets are not ambitious enough, Minister Simons disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>\"The goal isn't to do the minimum possible. My goal as the Minister is... to do as much as possible.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"My goal is to exceed the targets we set.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tan Mei Xi &#8212; BC&#8217;s Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction is clear: he doesn&#8217;t think the income assistance and disability rates in BC are high enough. That doesn&#8217;t mean, however, that Minister Nicholas Simons is committing to raising the rates. &#8220;I don&#8217;t make promises that I can&#8217;t unilaterally keep myself,&#8221; said Simons,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":31371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[225],"tags":[4802,4610,4801,940],"radio":[],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31369"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31369"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=31369"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=31369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}