Need help getting through all the red tape?
The Traveling Poverty Law Advocate Program is sponsored by Community Connections Society of Southeast BC and is funded by the Law Foundation of British Columbia. The Traveling Poverty Law Advocate is a not a lawyer and does not work for the government. The Traveling Advocate does provide assistance and information to the public regarding poverty law issues such as tenants’ rights and dispute resolutions, welfare information and appeals, disability benefits information and appeals, Human Rights complaints, Canada Pension Plan, Old Age Security, Guaranteed Income Supplement, the S.A.F.E.R program, and employment standards. If you need to contact us, call right away at 1-877-298-2211 or send us an email at ekadvocate@shaw.ca
The Program can help you by offering the following services:
- ADVOCACY
- Helping you work things out with the ministry.
- Assisting you with an appeal.
- Helping you work things out with the Ministry of Housing and Social Development.
- Assisting you with Dispute Resolution.
- INFORMATION
- Your rights on welfare.
- How to apply for Income Assistance benefits.
- Tenant's rights.
- Employment Standards.
- REFERRALS
- To other community agencies or resources.
