In the last three months, Dwayne Hawkes lost his apartment, lost his job, and moved into a travel trailer on a friend’s property outside of Amherst, N.S.
He hoped things would get better from there, but more bad news was on the way.
Hawkes received a letter this week from the provincial Department of Community Services stating his monthly income assistance payments would be whittled down from more than $900 to $380 starting Sept. 1 because he lives in a travel trailer.
People living in places like tents, homeless shelters, transition houses and rehabilitation programs are only eligible for what the Department of Community Services calls
