Provinces may receive federal funding for income supports for unemployed or disabled and most Provinces allow Aboriginals to go through this process. Apparently, in B.C., the AFN does not allow this or the persons seeking assistance are asked to go to the AFN. Like B.C. Aboriginal healthcare, the AFN apparently had taken over social assistance also and AFN management of any Aboriginal programs, whether they be healthcare, housing income supports and disabilities, has been, at the best, fraudulent and unreported back to stakeholders, like the Crowns. Aboriginals, wherever they choose to live, are better off with Crown management rather than the AFN middlemen seeking cash, funding and employment from Crown programs created to assist Aboriginals. The third party should not have any AFN affiliation for very obvious reasons, but the benefits should go directly to Aboriginals pockets, regardless of where they live, cutting out middlemen who, often, take about half the benefits meant for Aboriginals pockets.
Income supports, whether they be housing or disability and regardless of providers or resource use payments, should reflect the median wage or value of usage and be direct to each Aboriginal pocket.
http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/2015/05/20/bc-first-nations-lose-social-funding
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