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Terrie mocharebyl at gmail.com
Wed Nov 14 13:34:32 EST 2012 

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From: The Cost of Cutting the Community Start-Up and Maintenance Benefit <
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Date: 14 November 2012 13:32
Subject: Income Security Advocacy Centre
To: Terrie <mocharebyl at gmail.com>


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       The Real Cost of the Ontario Government's Plan to Cut the Community
Start-Up and Maintenance Benefit
The Wellesley Institute and ISAC, along with ACTO, the AOHC, Street Health,
and the Peterborough County-City Health Unit, have partnered to produce a
new report, “*The Real Cost of Cutting the Community Start-Up and
Maintenance Benefit: A Health Equity Impact
Assessment<http://incomesecurity.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=095b12c98935ecaadd327bf90&id=53e51c4608&e=655bad47b0>
.*” *The report calls on the provincial government to halt the planned
elimination of CSUMB and reinstate the $67 million in funding.*

Access to housing that is safe and affordable is a key determinant of
health, and the cancellation of the CSUMB has the potential to increase the
number of low income Ontarians who are precariously housed or who are
homeless. This paper sets out some of the potential health implications of
this decision through an equity lens.

*Below is the press release that was sent out today to announce the release
of the report - and five things you can do to combat the cut.*

Please feel free to circulate this widely.

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*MEDIA RELEASE - For Immediate Release*

*TORONTO* - People receiving social assistance will be a greater risk of
homelessness if the provincial government’s plan to eliminate the Community
Start-Up and Maintenance Benefit (CSUMB) is realized. A new report, “*The
Real Cost of Cutting the Community Start-Up and Maintenance Benefit: A
Health Equity Impact
Assessment<http://incomesecurity.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=095b12c98935ecaadd327bf90&id=db4b411c11&e=655bad47b0>
,*” calls on the provincial government to halt the planned elimination and
reinstate the $67 million in funding.

Community groups and municipalities are increasingly alarmed about the real
cost of the provincial government’s plan to cut this key housing benefit,
which will take effect on January 1. The province is downloading only half
of the program’s funding to municipalities to run local housing and
homelessness programs. Municipalities are struggling to plug the funding
gap.

The elimination of the CSUMB means that people on social assistance who
have unexpected or large housing-related costs could lose their housing and
end up homeless. The report, from a collaboration of six health, income
security, and housing organizations, says that cutting the benefit may have
significant negative health impacts for people who are already among the
most vulnerable in Ontario, including the homeless, women, children, and
people with disabilities.

The report warns that without the CSUMB, women in transition shelters
fleeing domestic violence won’t be able to afford moving costs when they
find a safe home. People trying to move from homeless shelters into housing
will be impacted, as well as many others, including people who are moving
out of institutions, or who are trying to leave substandard housing wrought
with bedbug infestations, mould and other poor housing conditions that lead
to serious health problems.

Approximately *16,000* Ontarians access the CSUMB each month to assist with
emergency housing costs they could not otherwise afford, including rent
payment to avoid eviction, avoiding utility cut off, and leaving an abusive
domestic situation. Families are eligible to receive up to $1,500 every two
years and singles are entitled to up to $799.

To read the report go to: *
http://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/publication/the-real-cost-of-cutting-csumb/<http://incomesecurity.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=095b12c98935ecaadd327bf90&id=efe759fd94&e=655bad47b0>
.*

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 Five Things You Can Do to Combat the Cut!
1. *send an email - automatically! - to the Ministers urging them to
restore the CSUMB<http://incomesecurity.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=095b12c98935ecaadd327bf90&id=cea68adbe2&e=655bad47b0>
*. Your email will also be sent to Opposition critics. Then FORWARD THE
LINK to your friends, colleagues, clients, and get them to send an email
too.

2. *download the template
letter*<http://incomesecurity.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=095b12c98935ecaadd327bf90&id=6ac220eb63&e=655bad47b0>and
circulate it to your friends, clients, people you work with - have
them
sign and send it to their MPP.

3. *contact your local MPP *- call them to ask for a meeting, or send an
email or letter to them directly. Tell them what the elimination of CSUMB
is going to mean in your community. Ask them what they're going to do to
help restore the CSUMB.

   - *If you don’t know the name of your MPP or your Electoral District, *go
   to the Elections Ontario website and use your postal code or address to
   look them up:
http://fyed.elections.on.ca/fyed/en/form_page_en.jsp<http://incomesecurity.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=095b12c98935ecaadd327bf90&id=14c194eb4d&e=655bad47b0>
   .
   - *To get their contact information, once you know their name, *go to
   the Ontario Legislature addresses list to get their contact information:
   http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_current.do?locale=en&channel_id={923146e7-4d81-42a8-99f0-e61f5ab50387}&lang=en<http://incomesecurity.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=095b12c98935ecaadd327bf90&id=d6350e6227&e=655bad47b0>
   .

4. if you are receiving OW or ODSP and have expenses that could make you
eligible for CSUMB, make sure that you *contact your caseworker to apply
for funding right away*! The program ends December 31.

5. if you work with people receiving OW or ODSP, *here is a toolkit that
you can use to help them
apply<http://incomesecurity.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=095b12c98935ecaadd327bf90&id=1fb195f2f9&e=655bad47b0>
*.


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Jennefer Laidley
Policy & Research Analyst
Income Security Advocacy Centre

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