Lawyers with the BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre (BC PIAC) wrote to Human Resources Minister Stan Hagen and Attorney General Geoff Plant on February 12, 2004 to ask whether their clients have been exempted from the provincial government’s 24-month time limit on social assistance. BC PIAC, in association with the Poverty and Human Rights Project, has been preparing a constitutional challenge to the time limit. BC PIAC represents several community groups and four individual clients who stand to be affected by the time limit.
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