Yes, the dummycrats(liberals) and the new democratic party(Far left loons) created it. I find it odd that they offer extra payments if needed but the person seeking help seldom fits the parameters to qualify for the extra cash. It's happened to me twice.

Here is another amusing letter I wrote to my member of parliament about a year ago. :)
Isn't it fun to torture politicians with letters?
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When I got out of school in 1963 I had already decided that I owed my country some of my life, so I joined the RCAF
and contributed five years of my time on earth instead of continuing with my education, which I finished later.
Following the air force I found a steady job and dutifully contributed to the operation of Canada by paying my taxes and
CPP for rest of my career. While this was going on, I joined the Federal Conservative party and helped Joe Clark
to become Prime Minister as his Advertising chairman in Yellowhead. For a time I was a director with the Provincial
Conservatives and worked on the campaign to elect our MLA and he was elected.

When I was fifty eight, I was forced to retire and become the primary caregiver for my wife, Helen. She had a
stroke, has severe rheumatoid arthritis, pronated ankles and cannot walk, her right shoulder has fallen out of its
socket, her left elbow has disolved. Her left knee has no cartilidge, the right knee has been replaced, she has
high blood pressure, irritable bowel syndrome, and . . . well, I guess you understand our situation. We are getting
equipment assistance from Alberta Social Services. But she undertandably, is having a rough and painful life.
Because I was fifty eight when this became so serious I was forced retire early. Therefore I needed to use my
life's savings to look after her and advance to sixty years of age where I could activate my minimum pension and
continue to stay home and look after Helen, which I am doing.

A couple of weeks ago I was informed in writing that my OAS would be cut back by about thirty two dollars.
My CPP increased by roughly twelve dollars. That increase coupled with the fifty one dollars interest generated,
and reported to Revenue Canada, on the twenty one hundred and fifty eight dollars I had saved from my
pension money to hand over as last year's municipal taxes caused the cutback. So, my pension was cut back
about twenty dollars a month. That's two hundred and forty dollars a year that I will not be receiving. I sent an
email about this to you, but received no response.

Today, Canada's pensioners were paid. This month, along with all the other bills and saving to fork over municipal tax,
my house and car insurance were due. I paid those bills and the minimum payments to the insurance company.

I have thirteen dollars left for groceries and gas for the car. What do you think I should do, walk to the grocery
store and buy thirteen dollars worth of twinkies, drive over and buy six liters of gas and seven dollars worth of
twinkies, or steal money from my wife's pension to cover what expenses I can? I guess we both know that I'll
be stealing the money from Helen. As you can imagine, that makes me feel pretty low.

Why is there no additional help for people who are forced into a caregiver situation? For us the joy of retirement
in Canada is gone. Without any time off, we cook, deliver and serve meals to our charge, quickly do the shopping
and get home, bathe the person, clean the house, change the bed, and look after the yard etc. It never seems
to end. How would you like your 'golden years' to be spent the way I am spending mine?

As I pointed out in my previous letter, the pay for caregiving in Canada is $0.00 and by not housing
these injured citizens in a government home for the cronically ill and aged must be saving the federal
and provincial governments millions, if not billions of dollars every year.

Why not put a small portion of that saved money in the hands of we who need it?

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>Whoa, this just ain't right! I thought Canada was the model for guvment healthcare? It sounds like you live in the US, where the bureacrats can cut the cost of healthcare, by driving you to an "early grave."<g> I hate the guvment, when they do this kind of stuff. Do y'all have a dummycrat party up there too?
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>>>(wisea** retort deleted)
>>>
>>>How is your wife doing?
>>
>>Thanks for asking.
>>
>>Helen fell a couple of months ago and has been moved
>>to a nursing home. The only bed available was in the
>>dimensia ward and she doesn't have dimensia. She'll
>>be moved when a bed becomes available in an area where
>>the patients are more lucid. She's pretty depressed by
>>the situation but has no choice, because she can no
>>longer walk, even with her walker.
>>
>>FYI - The monthly bill is $1400.75 a month. Canadian
>>Medicare pays $751.26 and I have to come up with the
>>rest. It has made me count the pennies, but it can be
>>done if I'm careful with the budget. OY!!
>>
>>Here's a pension story for you. I applied for a service called
>>involuntary separation to help me with the bills. But, because
>>my income increased in 2007 all I was allotted was 93 cents
>>a month by the government. About the increase . . .
>>I save $200.00 a month to cover the municipal taxes I have
>>to pay for living in this city. Each month I put the money in
>>the money market. The interest I make on the money is about
>>$5.00 a month, so that's $60.00 a year. That $60.00 is the
>>wopping increase that was sited to cut my involuntary separation
>>payment to help cover the bills. There is something wrong with
>>the pensioner's rules in Ottawa (Canada's Capital city) and
>>nobody cares.
>>
>>So here is first draft of the letter I wrote in reply to their payment.
>>I hope is give you a chuckle.
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>>May 27, 2008 my wife was admitted to a nursing home.
>>The cost per month is $1400.00 minus an Alberta Senior's Benefit
>>payment of $751.26 leaving $643.74 outstanding.
>>
>>I recently was advised to apply for an increase in my pension
>>through your "Involuntary Separation" feature as it would help
>>with covering the outstanding amount each month.
>>
>>Having applied a month ago, today I called Service Canada and asked
>>when the involuntary separation payment would be approved. To my
>>delight, I was told that it had been approved and my monthy pension
>>cheque would be increasing. "How much will the increase be", I asked.
>>The Service Canada rep told me that my payment was $375.69 a month
>>and it would be increasing to $376.62 immediately.
>>
>>I just want to take a moment say thank you for the 93 cent increase
>>in my pension. Over the course of a year it will amount to a
>>wopping $11.16 which will pay for a box of Tim Horton donuts
>>for me and my wife, and we'll still have $4.91 left over to stick up your a*s.
>>
>>
>>:)