Other Albertans could use the monthly support more

By Lethbridge Herald on February 3, 2023.

Editor:

This is a copy of an email I sent to our premier:

Dear Premier Danielle:

Here are three situations where people are receiving the $100/month gift:

A. A couple of seniors with no mortgage or car payments making $120,000 per year from pensions.

B. A family of four that includes two children earning $175,000 per year with the usual mortgage payments and probably a car payment.

C. A young person earning minimum wage of $15/hr (works out to around $30,000 per year).  Possibly going to school on student loans.

Now the pensioners could be blowing it all at the casino, a condo in Arizona, too much wine or other necessities. The family of four many be stretched to the limit trying to keep up with the Jones’s – need to have a BMW in the driveway and the kids need iPhones, etc. 

There are many others out there. It could be a single mom with no kids at home trying to live on $40,000 per year paying rent, car expenses, etc. Now who do you think needs the $100 per month?

Reed Spencer

Lethbridge