{"id":32051,"date":"2022-10-24T23:48:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T02:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=32051"},"modified":"2022-10-24T23:48:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T02:48:38","slug":"ns-liberals-bills-tabled-on-income-assistance-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=32051","title":{"rendered":"NS Liberals: Bills tabled on Income Assistance, Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;169&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;93&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FROM A RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HALIFAX:<\/strong> At province house Oct. 24, the Nova Scotia Liberal Party introduced two bills as the session in the House<br \/>resumed.<br \/>Community Services shadow minister Ben Jessome will be tabling an amendment to the Employment Support and Income Assistance Act, requiring the province\u2019s income assistance rate to be indexed annually to inflation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Income assistance payments are a vital funding stream for our province\u2019s most vulnerable but have become redundant as prices on almost everything have jumped significantly in the last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;7&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This bill would match income assistance payments to the economic climate we\u2019re in, so the payments<br \/>can go a longer way for those receiving them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Northside-Westmount MLA Fred Tilley will introduce an amendment to the Veterans\u2019 Number Plates Regulations that would waive vehicle registration fees for military veterans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Nova Scotia those fees can cost over $300 for passenger vehicles; this bill would be a cost-saving measure as a token of gratitude for those who have served our country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;72&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;95&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;169&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;93&#8243;] FROM A RELEASE HALIFAX: At province house Oct. 24, the Nova Scotia Liberal Party introduced two bills as the session in the Houseresumed.Community Services shadow minister Ben Jessome will be tabling an amendment to the Employment Support and Income Assistance Act, requiring the province\u2019s income assistance rate to be indexed annually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[50,4352,48,1867,4353],"class_list":["post-32051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-halifax","tag-income-assistance","tag-n-s","tag-n-s-liberals","tag-province-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}