Local resources
Ministry of Housing and Social Development (formerly Ministry of Employment & Income Assistance)
Oliver/Osoyoos: 34630-95th Street, Oliver. Telephone: 250-485-6016
Penticton/Summerland: 254 Haynes Avenue, Penticton
Telephone: 1-866-866-0800, enter menu option #3, then menu option #4
Princeton: 10, 136 Tapton Avenue, Princeton Telephone: 250-295-6901
Penticton & Area Women’s Centre
209, 304 Martin Street, Penticton, B.C. V2A 5K4
For help with filling in forms, representation and appeals, reconsideration requests, tribunals.
Telephone: 250-493-6822 Toll-free: 1-888-493-6822
email: info@pawc.ca www.pawc.ca
Welfare: publications, telephone and online resources
Your Welfare Rights: A User’s Guide to BC Employment and Assistance. updated March 2006.
This is a comprehensive guide to welfare rights, including income assistance, disability assistance and hardship assistance. lss.bc.ca
Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS)
Provides legal advice, help and representation to people with low incomes and the groups that represent them.
Telephone: 604-685-3425 www2.povnet.org/clas
Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance Online Resource
Information about ministry policy, programs and services; a one-stop entry point. Information in the Online Resource is organized into topic categories. Topic home pages provide an overview and links to relevant acts and regulations, policy, rate tables and resources for the public, such as fact sheets and brochures.
www.gov.bc.ca/bvprd/bc/home.do
Employment and Assistance Appeal Tribunal
Explains the appeal tribunal process and provides contact information and copies of the necessary forms
Toll-free: 1-866-557-0035 TTY: 1-866-356-6264 Fax: 1-877-356-9687
email: eaat@gems2.gov.bc www.gov.bc.ca/eaat
The publications resources may also be useful. See the index for Legal Services Society.
Legal Services Society: Sponsorship Breakdown
Legal Services Society: Welfare Fact Sheets (available in Chinese, Farsi/Dari, French, Punjabi, Spanish and Vietnamese)