Finally a couple of weeks before Christmas, the person asked me to blog this very sad story.
The individual is a Native from Saint Mary’s.
These Natives are called off reserves Indians.
They don’t live on the reserves.
They’re spread out around this Province.
Christmas time, all the Natives who are registrer to a certain reserves receives a little Christmas gift.
They can receive- $100,$200 or $300 once a year.
This individual has never been on Social Assistance.
The case worker in Fredericton began asking questions.
The individual told the worker that she received a few bucks from the Reserves.
This is a Native I met during my protest in 2003!
New Brunswick Family Services began removing $25.00 a month from the Native check every month.
This has been going on for the past year.
I began to investigate this issue for the past six months and I located a great spoke person for the Natives off reserves.
He told me that the individual should have remain silent and should have never told Family Services of the money.
The only crime the individual made with New Brunswick Family Services is being honest!!!!
While in Saint John, I bumped into a female Native friend.
She belongs to the Big Cove Reserve < today is a new name and I don’t know it >
Anyway, she told me that Family Services should never have taken the money from the individual because it’s not taxable.
I know for a certain fact that $25.00 is not a lot of money for a lot of readers but this is not right at all!
Why does Family Services goes against the Natives off reserves in New Brunswick?
As a manner of fact, the first instance this individual applied for Assistance?
The individual was denied!
I couldn’t believe that a poor New Brunswicker would be denied assistance from the Lord Government in today’s standard.
The individual < in their 50s > was told to go and live at the shelter.
Last year, it took the fine action of MLA Abel LeBlanc to straighten this emotional issue out!
Pretty sad when you have to get an MLA from Saint John to help a poor person in the Capital! Thanked God for Abel!!!
Yes, I’m not done with this issue. Not from a long shot!!!
Myself, I confronted the case worker and the worker wouldn’t change her mind in this issue.
Of course, I have no right to speak on this issue because I’m not a lawyer or a social worker.
This is pure discrimination against the Natives in this Province and I would love to know who is behind this dis-respectful act?
It took a long time for this individual to give me this ok to write about this issue and you will hear a lot more from me on this one.
I will confront Joan MacAlpine face to face on this issue or even Bernard Lord.
I tried everything with Family Services but to no avail.
The Natives off reserves shouldn’t be discriminated against by Family Services!
I wonder if Brad Green knows about this???? This kind of action shouldn't be happening in this province.
Am I wrong or right on this one???
13 comments:
I don't see what this has to do with natives or non-natives. Support is paid out according to income. If your income is higher than you admit, your support payment gets reduced. How is that discrimination? How is it in any way unfair?
You must be blind??? This is a gift between the Native population. Everyone is allowed to make a certain amount of money per month! The mostly white workers at Family Services went out of their way to take this money from the Natives. Yes, this is discrimination from the Government side. Question? Who gave the orders to take the money away from the Natives from outside the reserves????
If I read that right, I would say the most money if any at all that should have been deducted or taken from this person is $100.00 as any person in this province that is receiving Social Assistance or Social Benifets are allowed $200.00 per Month before being subject to deductions.
(Of which is rumoured to be increased to $300.00 in the near future)
Also if this was a gift or Social Benifet from his/her Reserve that specificly says the $300.00 is a Chrismas Benifet which represents $25.00 a Month for 12 Months then I would question why this Government would go through such measures to take away a once a year Social Benifet when there are 100s of individualls ripping the system on a monthly basis of 100s of dollars and do for years without ever being caught and that is where those resources are better spent.
It's comparible to the
Government on VLTs, They say they don't want to ban them because the black market will take over and have these small fridge sized machines throughtout our province and the Government would not be able to stop them.
Yet we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to find and make endless arrests for $20.00 quantities of weed the size of a two dollar piece.
In both cases if this is not a poor and pathetic excuse for receiving revenues for this province then nothing is.
I heard that Natives don't pay any taxes and are exempt from the HST? I don't know how true this is, but IF it is true, then do they collect an HST cheque 4 times a year? If the above is true, then maybe they shouldn't collect an HST cheque, because they don't pay HST?
Maybe someone can address this issue.
The $25 a month that is coming out of this person's Welfare Cheque is PROBABLY because Welfare estimated that over a period of how many years??this person was receiving that money and never reported it...so they are probably charging the person with "back monies owed" to the Department.
And if that is the case, that's only fair.
"Fair" that a word that is interpreted for different classes of people and exceptions are made and things are over looked. This happen more often for the millionaires and billionaires. Why do people always come down on people who are struggling but give the okay to upper class or the more affluent people in society?
This is injustice when people in power constantly find ways to tax us to death and expect that we should never have any money to make ends meet and have a life for our our families. No one should be hungry or have no where to live but the hold world is so messed up. Why is the laws and rules different for the wealthy and everyone else? We have to give all people respect. Our society gives people with wealth respect while the rest of us have to follow the rules of society set up by the rich. Great system for the wealthy.
That would be the ULTIMATE in unfairness if Family Services was 'estimating' that the person had been lying and therefore had the money over the years. I'm amazed somebody can say that with a straight face. To make the basis of taking money from somebody because of the assumption the person HAD been a liar? You don't get any more unfair than that.
The unfairness is shown by the poster above, if X amount of dollars is allowed to welfare recipients, this person is under the amount, and yet STILL has it deducted, that pretty much settles it. However, has anybody bothered to check to see if that's actually the case? People can say anything here.
Natives are treated completely differently whether they are on reserve on not. The tax line is an old one, it applies to on reserve natives and here's why:
THEY DON"T GET ANY GOVERNMENT SERVICES!!!
Get that through your heads. Whatever services they utilize they have to pay for. If they use an outside hospital, they pay for it, an outside school, they pay for it. Road clearing and sewage-they pay for it. In other words, they get no services-which is what taxes are for. This is why so many reserves built their own health care clinics and schools (one of the reasons anyway)
This is just one of native complaints-once of the reserve they are 'cut off'. They are no longer considered 'native', they are just poor and often homeless. In this case it was an act of kindness that the reserve sends some money to poor natives off reserve.
When it comes to native rights, this is just ONE of a long list of grievances. Of course we never hear about them, no doubt because Irving wants to keep most New Brunswickers in a state of 'near native hate' in case the courts give them any more rights to their own land. We can't have New Brunswickers siding with natives even though their interests are generally the same (fair use of land, job creation, income stabilization) when there are massive corporations like Irving which employ fewer and fewer people while decimating our land and making sure it can't be used for other purposes.
People like this individual are just affraid to stand up and fight for their rights and this is a darn shame. But I know for a certain fact that I will continue to blog this issue to death!!!
Charles, if you want the real answer to this why dont you just contact FCS instead of speculating like a dumb ass! God forbid you would ask someone who understands this concept and why this is really happening. Where is TJ Burke on this matter? I bet you he understands this issue. He's a bright guy from what I understand and seems to care about all people not just Natives.
Elsipogtog First Nation, Kent County, New Brunswick (Former Big Cove) FYI
Why still do you believe the wealthy tell the truth and don't hide their money in off shore accounts or plain lie like they usually do. Hire the best accountants, lawyers and so many laws are change for them to get the tax breaks and hide their money and not pay the taxes owing.
Several of you who worry alot about welfare amd low income people and natives should take the time and try to really live on such little money and experience the reality. Save your breath if you can't give a little compassion.
Billionaires and millionaires could your criticism.
to 6:53pm??? Trust me...I chatted with the case worker....i email some head cheese...i did everything but to no avail...I told them I'm goimg public with this and i DID!!!
If all people would stand up for their rights and put pressure on the system and come out publicly about injustices some day things will change.
People who live in a home and have food and can make ends meet; are not the ones that are asking for assistance; right now we are talking about people who fall through the cracks and no where to turn. Stop saying I hear this and that; we truly don't understand stop it. Today unless you really walk in their shoes and sleep and eat what they do; don't say you know because you don't. If it wasn't for kind people, family or friends that help people until they qualify or fit the mould the government has set for all of us there would be alot more people suffering. This has nothing to do with situation but this is an example of what happen to me last year. I had breast cancer and had to use my sick time at work and then I qualified for EI but by the time I received my first cheque it was two months later. For me it wasn't as bad but I still had to borrow money to make payments and I had a spouse. Funny how the government spends our money carelessly and how they make us wait so long for money. They have all the information and no reason to delay but you are just a number. I hope you understand my point because when people are desperate they will do desperate things to feed their family. People don't all have someone they can turn to or do they qualify for help. Stop judging.
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