AMI Today

The Feature: Rabia Khedr from Disability Without Poverty - August 27th, 2024

Episode Summary

Rabia Khedr is the National Director of Disability Without Poverty. She joined our host Jacob Shymanski to discuss the impact of the recently announced Canada Disability Benefit.

Episode Notes

Rabia Khedr is the National Director of Disability Without Poverty. She joined our host Jacob Shymanski to discuss the impact of the recently announced Canada Disability Benefit. 

They talk about what is really needed to lift Canadians with disability over the poverty line, barriers to accessing the benefit, and why the benefit still deserves to be celebrated despite its shortcomings.

Highlights 

• Coming up with Nisreen Abdel-Majid (00:00)
• The Canada Disability Benefit does not address the financial security of people with disability (3:05)
• Qualifications for the Canada Disability Benefit (4:02)
• The barriers to access the Canada Disability Benefit (6:08)
• Provincial and Federal funding for people with disabilities (8:04) 
• Is there time to change the regulations of the new benefit? (10:45)
• Bill C-22 is a historic legislation and should still be celebrated (12:08)
• What are some of the extra expenses that arise when living with a disability? (14:51)
• Lifting disabled people out of poverty is an investment in social capital (17:03)
• The categorization of disabilities denies people access to some programs (20:43)
• The Better the Benefit campaign (23:59)
• How does the benefit impact the Medical Assistance in Dying conversation (24:55)
• Disability Without Poverty (25:53)