A recent survey commissioned by the United Way revels that 42 per cent of Manitobans are uncertain how they\u2019ll cover basic expenses this month, with financial stress affecting households across all income levels, not just low-income families.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe encounter people who are using there credit cards as a source of income because it\u2019s the only solution they have to feed there family or keep a roof over there head, but we also see people who are doing everything right,\u201d said Dana Erickson, Community Financial Counselling Service.<\/p>\n
Erickson says the demand for financial help keeps growing, with his team filling nearly 20,000 tax return and benefit applications last year alone. He also notes that services like his rely on sustainable funding from the United Way to keep those supports\u201c \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important to do all we can to support the agencies because what they do is critically important work on the from lines from helping people find housing to providing bas necessities,\u201d said JP Perron, volunteer campaign chair at United Way.<\/p>\n
United Way Winnipeg says these services are vital, with more than 125 agencies across the city helping people manage rising costs, secure housing, and access food and mental health supports<\/p>\n
\u201cAs part of the 60th anniversary of the United Way being here for Winnipeg, there is not greater time for us to come together and to continue to support,\u201d said Perron.<\/p>\n
In response to the survey, the province says they recognize the pressures many Manitobans are facing and points to new investments and affordability measures aimed at easing strain.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why we launched the Your Way Home strategy and invested over 78 million into housing to make sure we have affordable housing and Manitobans have access to it,\u201d said Bernadette Smith, Minister of Housing at Addictions and Homelessness of Manitoba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A recent survey commissioned by the United Way revels that 42 per cent of Manitobans are uncertain how…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-216655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}