BC Government To Lift Freeze
Helping Kids Go To Camp
Helping Kids Go To Camp
In a cost saving move the BC government had frozen funds available to help send kids on social assistance or with disabilities to summer camp.
The program is reported to have helped 1800 kids last year with a subsidy of $200 which would cost a total of $360,000 plus of course the administration cost, which probably would double that.
The measure of course met with horror from those affected and several stories appeared supporting the need to send these kids to camp.
In typical government fashion, they tried to cut some costs here, while of course spending it there (higher wages for themselves and staff) and enough people squawked, so they changed their minds.
I wonder if any of the working families who now find themselves on EI will be able to apply for help to send their kids to camp also?
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