Canada

I think adjusting by municipality is a bad idea.

A flat basic income across the country promotes migration to lower COL areas. An adjusted basic income promotes migration to higher COL areas in order to get a bigger income. While different areas having different COLs is pretty unavoidable, I don't think making high-COL areas more attractive is a good idea.

I'm also not a huge fan of adjusting for couples vs. single people. I get why they do it, it's an easy way to save money. But the actual expenses of you living with a roommate (as you suggested) compared to you living with a roommate that you're also sleeping with, don't change very much. (I have similar complaints about household income being used for basically everything except taxes, but that's a little further off topic.)

Cool. So let's get this passed, and then work on those other things.

It's not pointless it's just significantly less effective.

Well that surely won’t happen in Ontario with the fascist narcissistic Ford running things. He is a soulless excuse for a human being for what he is doing to thousand of young/adult disabled people. It is a page right out of the fascist handbook.

Ford has literally gutted ODSP and his abhorrent handling of the Ontario Autism Program (OAP) is disgraceful and hurtful. They combined Ontario works and ODSP. One noticed immediately a difference. The workers treated ODSP recipients like they were Ontario works recipients. They sent out job search forms, etc. to people that were permanently disabled and incapable of working and humiliating them (ask most disabled people, they will say one of their dreams is to actually go out and work so to have these forms sent to them is literally a slap in the face) because these workers were never trained on how to deal with the disabled only people that were unemployed.

We can no longer email our local ODSP office, no more one on one workers, you are tossed into a pool and they rarely call back if ever. We had to actually get a lawyer involved just to contact the ODSP office to get anything done after 6 months of us calling with no call back in that 6 months.

Things ODSP used to cover, gone. Our child has autism and epilepsy. He has never ever had any form official therapy, guidance of any kind due to Doug Ford and gang. We were “approved” for OAP and SSAH almost 3 years ago but are still on the waiting list to actually get funding.

Our case is not unique, there are literally 1000’s of Autistic kids/adults that are not getting ANY therapy that they need to exist and communicate in society. This will lead to more violent altercations with police due to limited communication skills due to lack of therapy and more hospital visits plus more that will by carried by taxpayers down the road for years if not decades. Guess Ford does not care about down the road while he and his gang fill their pockets. We are very grateful for all that we receive. We do not expect anything. The Ford government promised OAP, SSAH and more but have not held true to that promise. Doug Ford is fully responsible for not helping thousands of his fellow Canadians that are disabled kids and adults and leaving them in the lurch.