- Disabled and Advocates to Speak Out Against Welfare Cuts
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... amendments to the Employment Support Income Assistance (ESIA) Regulations they say cutback essential health benefits. What: ...
News Release - cole - 08/15/2011 - 08:14 - 0 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups
- My life as a poverty activist and writer
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... years, there was a time in my life when I was not on the ESIA system. As a matter of fact, until I was somewhere in my twenties I got to experience what life before ESIA was like. Let's just say, at that point in my life I was quite a bit ...
Story - Robert DeVet - 08/11/2015 - 10:27 - 0 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups
- Budget 2015: Assistance freeze and job cuts at Community Services
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... voice was heard by the worker. After it got denied through ESIA appeial hearnings twice, I took mine to the Surprime Court and still lost ... I have tried making a human rights complaint about the way ESIA staff of Community Services was doing things. The Human rights Commision ...
Story - Robert DeVet - 04/09/2015 - 17:55 - 1 comment - 0 attachments - 0 groups
- Why people on Income Assistance fear the annual review
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... to deny me my right to appeal this decision through the ESIA appeal process. Also, my doctor got called by Community Services and ... Poverty, annual review, department of community services, ESIA, special needs) ...
Story - Robert DeVet - 09/16/2015 - 14:59 - 2 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups
- Op-Ed: Why aren't politicians listening to people living in poverty?
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... understand that what happened makes me feel abused by the ESIA system and has given me a scar which I am now going to have to deal with ... does not care about those of us who have to depend on the ESIA (welfare) system. Files attached to this ...
Story - Robert DeVet - 10/05/2015 - 10:23 - 1 comment - 0 attachments - 0 groups
- Shake up at Community Services
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... (Robert Devet, Poverty, department of community services, ESIA, Nova Scotia, poverty) ...
Story - Robert DeVet - 12/30/2015 - 14:43 - 0 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups
- The minister who stole Christmas
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... this, but the government has been silent. Even in the ESIA transformation process that is ongoing there is no discussion,” said ... (Robert Devet, Poverty, department of community services, ESIA) ...
Story - Robert DeVet - 12/19/2015 - 10:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups
- Down and out in Halifax and Dartmouth
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... poverty. And people who use food banks are not limited to ESIA clients. Food bank services are also used by people who are on cpp ... (Kendall Worth, Poverty, department of community services, ESIA, Food Banks) ...
Story - Robert DeVet - 11/17/2015 - 15:05 - 1 comment - 0 attachments - 0 groups
- Fighting to keep his benefits
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... he is not alone when it come to having problems with ESIA. Evenknow he lives in Sydeny, he still recieves his ssitance under the ... DCS, department of community services, disabilities, ESIA, income assistance, Nova Scotia) ...
Story - Robert DeVet - 11/06/2014 - 09:38 - 1 comment - 0 attachments - 0 groups
- More Community Services job cuts in rural Nova Scotia
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... Poverty, Barrington, department of community services, ESIA, Guysborough, Nova Scotia, rural Nova Scotia) ...
Story - Robert DeVet - 01/30/2015 - 10:06 - 3 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups