Thank you, Mr. Chair.
You're right that this has been a subject of discussion. The eligibility behind the benefit is key in how we would determine how much someone got and on what basis. There is a school of thought that says we should absolutely go in this direction. There are other voices saying, “Be careful” and “Engage us and understand better.”
To go back to some of the comments around unintended consequences, most federal benefits are built on family income. You could end up, for example, with a couple with a top 1% income earner and the other partner has a disability. We would be paying the benefit, therefore, to a high-income family, based on an individual's income.
There are those kinds of scenarios that we've heard about from the community, and this is a lot of the work that needs to be done through the regulatory process. We foresaw this as being part of the regulations rather than the legislation, to understand the exact design that works best and to make sure we target the people who need the help the most.
It's something that we have heard from the disability community, but I think their expectation is that we will work with them through the regulatory process to establish this. That's how the bill was designed and how the community would expect us to do it.