What YOU can do to fight back!

  1. Ask your doctor and other medical practitioners to speak out against changes to the Special Diet Allowance. Use the handy letter templates and phone scripts in Health Providers Against Poverty's Special Diet Allowance Action Kit .
  
  • Mobilize people in your community to protest the Special Diet changes and call on the Province to increase social assistance rates to reflect the real cost of living and end the NCBS clawback.                                  
  • Contact your MPP, Mayor and City Councillors to protest the changes to the Special Diet Allowance. Tell them how much these changes hurt you. Ask them how you're supposed to get by when social assistance rates are so grossly inadequate. Demand that the Province rescind the changes to the Special Diet Allowance, increase social assistance rates to reflect the real cost of living and end the NCBS clawback.
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    • Your local MPP (To find out who to contact, call Elections Ontario toll-free: 1-800-677-8683 or go to Elections Ontario and click on "Find your electoral district"  
      
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