[homeles_ot-l] Fwd: Take a Call-in Coffee Break to Save the CSUMB!

Wed Sep 26 08:57:48 EDT 2012

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From: Income Security Advocacy Centre <isac at lao.on.ca>
Date: 25 September 2012 14:57
Subject: Take a Call-in Coffee Break to Save the CSUMB!
To: Terrie <mocharebyl at gmail.com>

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 Take a ‘Call-in Coffee Break’ to save the CSUMB!
*On Friday, Sept. 28th take 5 minutes to tell your MPP to reverse the cuts
to housing benefits for people on OW and ODSP!*

Every month, thousands of people in Ontario need the Community Start-up and
Maintenance Benefit (CSUMB) and the Home Repairs Benefit (HRB) to stay
housed or establish a new home. These benefits work because:

   - They are targeted to people on social assistance (OW and ODSP) who are
   among the most vulnerable in Ontario. People on assistance have very low
   incomes and cannot afford these expenses otherwise.
   - They provide direct assistance. The benefits help people move into a
   new home, pay rent or utility arrears, get major repairs done to their
   home, or help them move to safer or more secure housing.
   - If CSUMB is denied, there is a right to appeal. This ensures fairness,
   accountability and transparency so that people in need will not be unfairly
   turned away.

*The provincial government’s budget measures have eliminated these
critically important programs.*

The HRB ended June 30, 2012. Starting January 2013, *half* of CSUMB money
will go to municipal housing and homelessness programs, which serve an even
larger pool of low-income people. The other half is simply cut from the
budget.

*Because of these cuts, homelessness in our communities will rise. *Women
leaving domestic violence, people leaving shelters or the hospital, people
with disabilities, and many others will find it harder to establish a new
or safer household. Demand for other already overburdened community
services will rise.

 We need to act now to save these benefits!
*Your MPP needs to hear that people in the community value these benefits,
and that the cuts must be reversed. *

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