{"id":957148,"date":"2026-11-03T20:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/957148\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T20:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:16:13","slug":"seniors-advocate-concerned-recent-government-supports-wont-provide-long-term-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/957148\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior\u2019s Advocate Concerned Recent Government Supports Won\u2019t Provide Long-Term Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\t\t\"Senior's<\/p>\n

(via the Office of the Seniors’ Advocate)<\/p>\n

The province\u2019s Seniors\u2019 Advocate was pleased to see the provincial government\u2019s latest cost-of-living measure aimed at seniors, but admits that it will not provide long-term relief.<\/p>\n

Seniors making $75,000 or less per year will receive a cheque for $500 by the end of the year, with others making up to $100,000 also receiving cheques \u2013 with amounts based on a sliding scale.<\/p>\n

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Pamela Dawe, Seniors Advocate (Office of the Seniors\u2019 Advocate NL)<\/p>\n

Pamela Dawe says the money will provide \u201cimmediate relief,\u201d and is hopeful that \u201cbetter things will come\u201d in terms of long-term changes that will help seniors.<\/p>\n

As an example, she says changes are needed to help make home supports more financially accessible for people as they age.<\/p>\n

Dawe highlights paying rent as another issue and says they have heard about it from many seniors. She says prices are increasing and people are struggling to keep up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (via the Office of the Seniors’ Advocate) The province\u2019s Seniors\u2019 Advocate was pleased to see the provincial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,269876,44,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-957148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957148","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=957148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}