People First of Canada and Manitoba believes that people must have an enough income to secure a life with dignity and inclusion

Usually, people with disabilities have higher living costs and a lower ability to make money. The financial and social cost of disability for an individual should not be poverty and exclusion. Systems and policies need to be changed to support people to have dignity and quality of life and to remove barriers to their full participation.

The systems that provide support for persons with disabilities are complicated.

They are often set up in a way that keeps a person at a low level of income and does not allow for them to increase their income without negatively effecting their other disability related support needs. People with disabilities are often lucky if they can obtain work for minimum wage or slightly higher. Once real employment has been secured, people often lose their disability supports - and their ability to work. For many people, this cost is too high and they go back into the system and cycle of low income and poverty.