Ep 59 Disability Benefits for Alberta(n Politicians)

So basically what's happened, if I can give a very broad breakdown, so the old AISH program, or the incumbent AISH program, Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped, which the, the name itself sort of dates the program.

Right.

So that-

Right.

That's a good point

... yeah, that program provides around, and it varies, but around 1,800 bucks a month of disability income supports, and the idea here is that if you, under the old AISH program, if you were able to make up to around $800 a month of employment income, that didn't affect your AISH benefit, and then there was a clawback that brought you up to about $4,000 a month of employment income.

Right.

So the, the kind of rough idea was-

Or $4,000 a month of total income, I guess.

Uh, yeah, that's accurate.

Sorry.

Like at, at, like at around the $4,000 mark of like-

Your AISH would be lost altogether.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

That's right.

Yeah.

The clawback would be for 100% of your AISH benefit.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And one of the challenges, and this...

So I'm gonna say something good about ADAP here.

[chuckles] So the challenge there was that if your income hit that threshold, that you didn't just lose your AISH financial benefits, but you also lost your AISH healthcare benefits.

I see.

Okay.