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Welfare Rates and Payment Issues (21:VIII) (view source)
Revision as of 18:21, 12 September 2023
, 18:21, 12 September 2023→D. Calculating the Shelter Allowance
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Recipients are eligible for the full monthly shelter amount only if they are paying at least that much in shelter costs. [https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/263_2002#schedulea Schedule A, s 5 of the EAR] and [https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/265_2002#schedulea EAPWDR] set out what expenses and items can be included when calculating shelter costs. They are: rent, mortgage payments, house insurance premiums, property taxes for the recipient’s own home, utility costs, and the actual cost of maintenance and repairs for the recipient’s own home '''if''' these costs have been approved. | Recipients are eligible for the full monthly shelter amount only if they are paying at least that much in shelter costs. [https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/263_2002#schedulea Schedule A, s 5 of the EAR] and [https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/265_2002#schedulea EAPWDR] set out what expenses and items can be included when calculating shelter costs. They are: rent, mortgage payments, house insurance premiums, property taxes for the recipient’s own home, utility costs, and the actual cost of maintenance and repairs for the recipient’s own home '''if''' these costs have been approved. | ||
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Where someone does not have any shelter expenses that are recognized as such in the welfare legislation, they are still entitled to receive the minimum amount for shelter allowance set out in the table above. | Where someone does not have any shelter expenses that are recognized as such in the welfare legislation, they are still entitled to receive the minimum amount for shelter allowance set out in the table above. | ||
Where two or more family units share the same place of residence, the Ministry calculates family units’ shelter costs according to s 5(4) of [https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/263_2002#schedulea Schedule A of the EAR] and [https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/265_2002#schedulea EAPWDR]. | Where two or more family units share the same place of residence, the Ministry calculates family units’ shelter costs according to s 5(4) of [https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/263_2002#schedulea Schedule A of the EAR] and [https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/265_2002#schedulea EAPWDR]. | ||
== E. Rates for People Receiving Room and Board == | == E. Rates for People Receiving Room and Board == | ||