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Critical Analysis of the Canada Disability Benefit and Disability Justice

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This document is a critical policy analysis of the Canada Disability Benefit (CDB), arguing that while it represents progress, its current design is insufficient to end disability poverty due to systemic barriers, inadequate funding, and narrow eligibility boundaries. The paper examines the CDB through multiple theoretical lenses and discusses the implications for social work practice and ethical dilemmas related to disability justice. Core Policy Tensions and Limitations The analysis moves beyond the initial view that monetary aid alone solves disability issues, emphasizing that structural barriers—like discrimination at work and limited healthcare access—must be addressed. Financial Insufficiency: Critics argue that the proposed CDB benefit amount is insufficient to reduce poverty and fails to cover the additional costs associated with disability (medical expenses, mobility equipment, specialized transportation). Systemic vs. Individualized Solutions: The CDB is criticized because financial benefits alone are inadequate to remove deep-rooted disabilities within society unless accompanied by investments in accessible housing, inclusive employment, and comprehensive healthcare. Needs-Based vs. Rights-Based: Federal disability policies often use the medical model of disability. While the CDB recognizes economic disparities, it operates within a needs-based system instead of rights-based principles, thereby maintaining dependency and impeding empowerment. Clawback Mechanism: The CDB may unintentionally reduce other provincial disability benefits through a clawback mechanism, erasing the intended financial assistance. Social workers must advocate for regulations that make the CDB supplementary to current benefits.

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THE CANADA DISABILITY BENEFIT: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF DISABILITY

AND JUSTICE




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Introduction

The Canada Disability Benefit introduced to fight disability-related poverty lacks

sufficient design that produces adequate results. The Maytree article (2024), "Why the

Canada Disability Benefit Won't End Disability Poverty, and How It Could," analyses the

policy through an evaluative lens while demonstrating the system-level obstacles that make it

ineffective. The Canada Disability Benefit remains an essential progress in disability poverty

relief. Its operational limitations arise from insufficient funding allocations and narrow

eligibility boundaries, which do not adequately match existing provincial programming.

Problems with implementing the benefit create substantial doubts about its ability to secure

financial stability and social inclusion opportunities for disabled individuals.

The research investigates the Canadian Disability Benefit (CDB) from multiple

theoretical perspectives while studying essential arguments regarding disability justice and

surveying relevant policy issues and ethical matters for social work practice. This paper's

analysis expands the comprehension of social policy reforms that establish genuine equity

and justice practices for people with disabilities.

The Understanding of Disability and Its Relation to Justice Has Undergone

Transformation.

I initially thought that monetary aid would directly enhance the life quality of people

with disabilities until I started this analysis. Exposure to disability justice frameworks showed

me that financial help is not enough to solve disability issues when there are structural

barriers, including discrimination at work, accessibility to health care, and social prejudices

against people with disabilities. People disabled by life circumstances show that financial

support, while vital, still fails to eliminate the fundamental obstacles which continue driving

marginalised situations. Economic justice requires disabled individuals to implement various
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