Saskatchewan Assured Income for Disability (SAID) program said she is struggling to afford face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.She said that limits where she can go and when and she feels isolated as a result.An advocate, who is part of the Saskatoon Inter-Agency Response to COVID-19, said that’s the real issue.
COVID-19 disability benefit, even if approved, would ‘miss all kinds of people’ Jean Leray has a severe learning disability and Klippel-Feil Syndrome, a skeletal disorder, and is unable to work.She receives a little less than $1,200 a month from the SAID program, and about $260 in rental assistance.