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port of patients by 95 cents a spouse is also in receipt of:
day from $10,50. A -day to OAS/Q15 is $53.30 a month or
$9.56, At the. same time, $1,09 per day. The increase in
charges to extended care rates for ward care will reduce,
program residents increased the $1,09 supplement to 14
from $4,50- a day to $5,45 — a .cents a day!
21
tne apn!sri that
cent
nseirnegalesep etiotnbejr5 to.T1330187.G.,aVaNySea"riwsehiwir out
who receives the maximum . (led '95 cents day room and
GAINS supplement of $24,49 a board charge for nursing homes
month (80 cents a day), the works out to $326.75 a loss to
Provincial qovernment is the pensioner of $19.43!
t1a5iciz.t bsaca 4 k946ycia -day a loss of Next week I will spend more
t The supplement of the with on ,GAI
NS
S01t to some questions
and deal
a nd
married pensioner whose problems,
sing homes has proven
ludicrous. The Ministry of
Health sent a directive to all
nursing homes dated June 26,
1974, which stated the
Ministry's policy regarding
qualified persons under the ex.
tended care program, It works
out that as of July 1674,
Senior Citizens' in Nursing
Homes have to pay out in in-
creased board the extra income
which they receive each month
through GAINS,
As of July 1, 1974, OHIP
reduced its contributlpn in sup-
ay Jack _Riddell, illoroto MI''!'
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MONEY I
Government initiative 'that
would benefit pensioners, as
well as, cutting government
costs.. = would be to provide
allowances to enable the aged
to stay in their own homes,
This would cost the Province
far less than the annual nur-
sing home fee of about $7,§00
per patient and would allow
many' pensioners to maintain
their independence. Ad-
ditionally, with respoet to
housing, there should be more
substantial prevision of senior
citizens' housing on the rent-
geared-to-income basis,
The Liberal. Party of Ontario
supported the Guaranteed
nual Income Act popularly
known as GAINS which was
passed in this last Session of ,
It is appalling that the.
Government has not yet im-
pletnented comprehensive and
realistic programs to satisfy the
needs of those' over 65. The
needs of Senior Citizens are not
all financial, but as the Social
Planning Council of
Metropolitan Toronto reported
last year, "it is likely'that many
so-called problems of the aging
would disappear is there were a
sufficiency of income,
Last November, John White,
the Provincial Treasurer in-
troduced legislation granting a
single payment of $50 as the
Government's program of
assistance to pensioners. The
Liberal Party of Ontario op-
posed that $50 handout
program as it came nowhere
near satisfying or meeting the
needs and problems of Senior
Citizens who see their pensions
and savings eaten up by in-
flation and the decreasing pur-
chasing power of the dollar.
At that time, the Liberal
Party proposed a three part
amendment to the Government
bill, This amendment stated
our policy with respect to
Senior Citizens.. Our amend-
ment provided for the' $50
payment—even though we
would have preferred the funds
necessary for its payment to be
incorporated into a program
which would provide more
lasting as well as more realistic.
means of assistance for the pen-
sioners in Ontario. The first,
clause of the amendment
provided for a minimum
guaranteed' annual income of
$216.09 per month for persons
over the age of 65, The provin-
cial Government should be
easing the hardship of those in
greatest need -- the 340,000 On-
tario residents who qualify for
the Guaranteed Income Sup-
. plement under the Old Age
Security Act of Canada. The
Liberal Party of Ontario's
program to add one dollar to
provincial funds to each two
dollars of guaranteed income
supplement would cost the
province $55 million annually--
a small enough amount when
looked at in relation to the
province's total budget of $8.3
billion.'
The second ailuSe i)f our
reasoned amendment provided
for an extension of OHIP
coverage for prescription drugs,
dental services, dentures,
hearing aids and eyeglasses to
all pensioners in Ontario. The
cost to the province for these
services would be ap-
proximately $20 millionan-
nually.
The th,ird clause •of our
amendment to improve
assistance to pensioners
provided increased allowances
under the Family Benefits Act
in levels of payment to those
covered under old age
assistance between the ages of
60 to 65. The cost of this could
reach as high ,as $50 million
but that would extend the
benefits down to the age of 60.
This amendment, needless tc
say, was not carried, but the
Liberal Party of Ontario sees
these programs as being clearly
necessary if Senior Citizens oi
Ontario are to retain their
dignity, health and happiness
in their retirement years. We
realize the programs as
proposed are costly and we
have carefully considered them
in that light and found them
essential for health, happiness
and well being of Ontario's
pensioners.
We also feel that a Provincial
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Parliament. The GAINS
Program .placed extra funds on
top of Federal Guaranteed In-
come Supplements so that
residents of Ontario who are 65
years of age or over are .assured
an income of $2,600 a year if
they are single or $5,200 a year
for a married couple if both
qualify.
However, while supporting
this bill, we argued strongly
that the GAINS Program must
be indexed to the cost of living
so that. as Ontario. citizens
reach retirement, they are
assured of a basic level of sup-
port which is. not going to
change with the inflation rates
of this Province or Canada as a
whole. The government of
Canada has indexed their
payments and our party 'feels
that an indexing feature must
be brought into play to fairly
meet the needs -of Senior
Citizens,
We supported the basic prin-
ciple of the Guaranteed Annual
Income for Senior Citizens,
however, the GAINS Program
as applied to. residents of nor-