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Persons With Persistent Multiple Barriers (PPMB)
Definitions
Employment Program of British Columbia (EPBC)
Employment Readiness Information Questionnaire (ERIQ)
Person With Persistent Multiple Barriers (PPMB)
Client Employability Profile
An employment planning tool used to examine clients’ personal barriers and to establish the nature and severity of each to determine how each may be addressed.
Disability assistance
An amount for shelter and support provided under the Employment and Assistance for Persons with Disabilities Act.
[see EAPWD Act, Section 1 for legal definition]
Employability Screen
An employment-planning tool consisting of eight statistically valid questions used to identify employment barriers based on past dependency on assistance, recent work history, education level, and English proficiency and literacy.
Employment Plan (EP)
A legal document outlining the activities and expectations which BC Employment Assistance applicants and recipients are required to follow in becoming employed or more employable, including the time frame. When required by the ministry, entering into and complying with an Employment Plan is a condition of eligibility for assistance.
[see Employment and Assistance Act (EA), Section 1 for legal definition]
Employment Program of British Columbia (EPBC)
The ministry’s program of employment services and supports that will commence April 2, 2012.
Employment Readiness Information Questionnaire (ERIQ)
A ministry developed form that is used to collect employment readiness information from clients. The Employment Readiness Information Questionnaire collects information about employment history, skills, strengths and unique circumstances that may impact a client’s ability to find and keep employment.
EPBC Action Plan
A plan for a case managed client, developed by the client and the Employment Program of British Columbia (EPBC) service provider. The EPBC Action Plan sets out the agreed-to steps, services and financial supports required for the client to achieve labour market attachment or community attachment as quickly as possible.
Family unit
An applicant or a recipient and his or her dependants.
[see EA Act, Section 1 or EAPWD Act, Section 1 for legal definition]
Hardship assistance
An amount for shelter and support that may be provided to clients who are not eligible for income assistance or disability assistance, if the regulations provide for such hardship assistance.
[see EA Act, Section 1 or EAPWD Act, Section 1 for legal definition]
Income assistance
An amount for shelter and support provided under the Employment and Assistance Act.
[see EA Act, Section 1 for legal definition]
Medical practitioner
A member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia who is entitled to practice under the Health Professions Act.
Medical Services Plan (MSP)
Medical Services Plan
Person With Persistent Multiple Barriers (PPMB)
A recipient who qualifies for Persons with Persistent Multiple Barriers (PPMB) is a person who has received assistance for at least 12 of the past 15 months and meets one of the following criteria:
- has severe multiple personal barriers to employment (that is, a score of 15 or greater on the Employability Screen) and has taken all reasonable steps to overcome these barriers and has a medical condition (excluding addictions) that has lasted for at least one year and is likely to continue or recur frequently for at least two years, and which is a severe barrier that seriously impedes the person’s ability to search for, accept, or continue employment
OR
- has a medical condition (excluding addictions) that has lasted for at least one year and is likely to continue or recur frequently for at least two years, and, in itself, precludes the person from searching for, accepting, or continuing employment, regardless of their score on the Employability Screen (may or may not have severe multiple barriers to employment)
[see EA Regulation, Section 2 for legal definition]
Spouse
Two persons, including persons of the same gender, are spouses of each other if they are married to each other, or they reside together and acknowledge they are residing together in a marriage –like relationship, or they have resided together in a marriage-like relationship for at least 3 consecutive months or 9 out of the previous 12 months and the relationship demonstrates both financial and social familial characteristics consistent with a marriage-like relationship.
