“This humiliating procedure is repeated monthly, not just for Brown but for all the other people with disabilities, for whom government’s default position seems to be that they must be scammers”

Comment by Stephen Hume — A. J. Brown, the artist challenged by deafness and cerebral palsy yet forced to live in poverty because the provincial government claws back her Canada Pension Plan disability benefits, sends me the official monthly financial disclosure form she must submit. It compels her to declare three-cents interest income earned by a bank deposit or face losing provincial benefits.  Read the rest of this article at The Vancouver Sun…