May 26, 2011Dear Sir,My Dad worked for 48 years. Financial Assistance's maximum supplement for any Rest home is $4,000. The person whose pension is $1,000 is supplemented $3,000 from Financial Assistance to make up the $4,000, leaving the family to pay the balance, if rest home fee is higher. The person whose pension is $3,000 is supplemented $1000 from Financial Assistance to make up the $4,000 leaving the family to pay the balance, if the rest home fee is higher.The person that has the bigger pension of $3,000 gets fewer benefits. One pensioner gets a $1,000 of assistance, one pensioner gets $3,000 of assistance. This is grossly disproportionate. It is not fair. The person with the bigger pension, that has paid more into the system; gets Less Benefits ... Wow … It doesn't matter if you have worked all your life, you will receive less assistance then someone that has never had a job.I was told Government does not discriminate if some- one has a smaller pension. Well, Government is discriminating against the person that has the bigger pension. If there is a need to cover rest home fees, the person whose pension is $3000 should be eligible to be supplemented as much as $3,000 just as the other person whose pension is a $1,000 gets supplemented $3,000.Financial Assistance assists young parents with two, three, four, children with rent, groceries, Belco, cell, cable, nursery, prescriptions, children's clothes. A voucher is payment. A lot of these young parents have never contributed a dime to the system and they receive more and better benefits than our seniors. Something is seriously wrong with this picture. I was told my only recourse is to find, quote, “a cheaper rest home”, one under $4,000 monthly. I am sure these people that feel that way would not want their children to put them in a “cheaper rest home”.TRYING TO LOOK AFTER DADPembroke