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Human Resources committee Thank you very much, Chair. With respect to the question Madam Zarrillo asked about paragraph 9(d) and the ability to garnish the Canada disability benefit for the purposes of the Family Orders and Agreements Enforcement Assistance Act, she asked whether this had a greater impac
December 13th, 2022Committee meeting
Krista Wilcox
Human Resources committee Hi. I'm Krista Wilcox. I'm the director general of the office for disability issues.
December 13th, 2022Committee meeting
Krista Wilcox
December 7th, 2022Committee meeting
Krista Wilcox
Human Resources committee Yes, indeed. This again is consistent with the Canada child benefit, for example, where it is garnishable for the purposes of family orders and agreements. Without this addition in here, you wouldn't be able to use the benefit to get payments from a parent who isn't providing the
December 7th, 2022Committee meeting
Krista Wilcox
Human Resources committee Thank you for that question. It's an excellent one, and I can't answer it at this point. What I can say is that when we have the design of the benefit, we will look at all of the interactions of all the federal benefits to see how this will interact. The reason I can't specify m
December 7th, 2022Committee meeting
Krista Wilcox
Human Resources committee I don't have the figures in front of me, but from my recollection, there are more women who receive family orders—for example, for family support payments—than there are men. I could certainly get that information for you so you can better understand what those figures look like,
December 7th, 2022Committee meeting
Krista Wilcox
Human Resources committee I can't speak to how “recovered” is used in other legislation. What I can say is that it may be contrary to paragraph 9(d), where we are trying to, for the purposes of family orders, make the CDB garnishable. If there is a parent not paying their support payments to another pare
December 7th, 2022Committee meeting
Krista Wilcox
Human Resources committee If I understand the question correctly—and I might not fully understand what the member who introduced the amendment intended—we do not read this as saying that it could prevent anything. It would direct other programs and their legislative frameworks. For example, if there was a
December 7th, 2022Committee meeting
Krista Wilcox
Human Resources committee I don't believe it would serve the intended purpose. What would need to be amended in other legislation is how income is calculated. It would need to be specifically exempted, and that legislation would have to specify that income received through the Canada disability benefit
December 7th, 2022Committee meeting
Krista Wilcox
Human Resources committee That is my understanding. I'm not a lawyer, but I would imagine that it would need to be done through the legislative, regulatory or policy frameworks of those governments, not the federal—
December 7th, 2022Committee meeting
Krista Wilcox
Human Resources committee That's correct, and it would be consistent with, for example, the Canada child benefit, which is in a similar situation.
December 7th, 2022Committee meeting
Krista Wilcox
Human Resources committee That's correct, and the timing of that would be important to add after the design of the benefit is set out so that the interaction with those programs is understood.
December 7th, 2022Committee meeting
Krista Wilcox
Human Resources committee That's correct, and that's the process we're following.
December 7th, 2022Committee meeting
Krista Wilcox
Human Resources committee Thank you for the question. In our work on the Canada disability benefit, we expect—and the minister talked about this at committee—that there may be interactions with other federal programs, as well as provincial and territorial programs. She made it very clear in her testimony
December 7th, 2022Committee meeting
Krista Wilcox
Human Resources committee It's a great question. Thank you. Working backwards, in terms of the approach to the engagement we've done so far, we've done it thematically. We've asked questions to provide the community with the opportunity to give us their perspective. As we get into the regulatory process,
October 26th, 2022Committee meeting
Krista Wilcox