Is it understandable if poor provinces reneg on WBC and don't supply promised social services? The comment about this taking place in Alberta confuses me.
I think the news said Pincher Creek, so don't understand the confusion!
Is it understandable if poor provinces reneg on WBC and don't supply promised social services? The comment about this taking place in Alberta confuses me.
I think the news said Pincher Creek, so don't understand the confusion!
Ah, so you're going to claim your wording of no help in the richest province, meant nothing. Gotcha.
No, I meant that there is very little excuse for leaving this poor guy in need in a land of plenty. To play Devil's advocate, let's say he was guilty of squandering/fraud whatever, you still feed him and sort it out later. You can still throw him in jail but once he''s dead from starvation there's not much one can do!
I still don't get what the wealth of the province has to do with it. All people in all provinces should be covered. These programs are paid for, they're sitting right there. The program possesses no more or no less wealth for him to partake of simply because its in Alberta.
We aren't poor like BC either.Yes, Karrie the same thing would apply if it happened in Saskatchewan or New Brunswick,
If he's not on WBC and not on AISH, were is he getting rent money from?
We aren't poor like BC either.
He'd easily qualify for AISH or income suppliments if he didn't have any other income . He's getting paid from from somewhere.We are not that poor either, we were probably just as rich as you guys 20 years ago until the lumber industry went for a sh*t and the environmentalists got half the mines shut down!
As for the rent perhaps he's one of many who every month has to decide who gets paid, the grocer or the landlord.
First of all blaming the Alberta Government bureaucracy is not exactly the answer here.
A disagreement with Workers Comp is a different matter entirely, There is an over all
administration of regulation but not the running of the program by Government.
Workers Comp in Alberta as in other jurisdictions is agency financed and for the most
part administered by Employers who pay for the fund. His problem is with Workers Comp.
People involved with workers comp are not dealing with government.
In most cases one can apply to human resources for interim assistance but that does not
always work out it is based on individual cases.
Here is a situation that comes back to haunt some people.. Those who claim the governments
waste tax dollars. Government employees put workers comp cases to additional scrutiny as
they don't want double dipping either. People can't have it both ways, save money and down
grade programs and when there is not enough money howl that someone is being abused by
the system.
We don't know the whole story and what has transpired, or whether the applicant was entitled
to Workers Comp. We insist there are too many employees in these positions making too much
money and when they cut back people howl there is not enough service to activate and to
investigate claims. If there were enough experienced well paid people still on staff at Workers
Comp or in the Human Resources Ministry perhaps this case could have been dealt with in a
timely manner. Oh I suppose this is another left response, true but people wanted less government
and less bureaucracy and now they don't like the fact there is not enough people to do the job.
1 Is there something we don't know?
2 Did he qualify for coverage?
3 What were all the circumstances of the accident?
4 Who is ultimately responsible for handling the claim?
5 Are there too many or not enough people there to do the job?
6 When did he start looking for emergency funding?
That is the big one, anything centered around a Comp claim is going to hold up the claim for
quite a while.
He'd easily qualify for AISH or income suppliments if he didn't have any other income . He's getting paid from from somewhere.
Even in the not busy times you'd get the same response. Go to a soup kitchen or shelter until your intake date.These sorts of programs need a better system in place to catch emergency calls at critical times like holidays, cold snaps, etc.
Falling short if receiving private insurance payments doesn't make him a bastard, he or media isn't giving the whole picture.I think there is an excellent chance you are right, Petros, I just pasted the news report, being careful not to read anything else into it. If it turns out he is the bastard we think he might be, there's another day to even the score.
I think there is an excellent chance you are right, Petros, I just pasted the news report, being careful not to read anything else into it. If it turns out he is the bastard we think he might be, there's another day to even the score.
If it's just food he is after there are sources 365 days a year which he would have been directed to. Nobody goes hungry if they just show up where told to go.Not every story needs someone to be the bastard. He can simply be a person stuck in a bureaucratic tangle, in a province like every other province.
It doesn't need to be someone's nefarious doing. There doesn't need to be some inherent plan to hoard wealth. There doesn't need to be some plan on his part to screw the system. It could just be a guy, in a system that needs tweaking.
Not every story needs someone to be the bastard. He can simply be a person stuck in a bureaucratic tangle, in a province like every other province.
It doesn't need to be someone's nefarious doing. There doesn't need to be some inherent plan to hoard wealth. There doesn't need to be some plan on his part to screw the system. It could just be a guy, in a system that needs tweaking.
Nahhhh he still has another foot if he is truly hungry.