BC Ombudsman receives inquiries and complaints about the practices and services provided by public agencies. While not an advocate, the Ombudsman can conduct impartial and confidential investigations to determine if a public agency is being fair to the people it serves. The Ombudsman has jurisdiction over many public agencies including complaints regarding income assistance and WCB.

http://www.gov.bc.ca/ - This is the BC government website. From this site you can link to ministry web pages and government laws and regulations.

BC Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance - This is the BC government's site for welfare. It has information on how to apply, how much you are eligible for, what you need to apply, and other information.

• Applying for BC Employment and Assistance (BCEA) - Translations of this information are available in Chinese, French, Hindi, Persian, Polish, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.
• BC Employment and Assistance Web Orientation - You must complete an orientation session no more than 60 days before applying for BC Employment and Assistance. You can attend a session at an office, or complete a web session.
• Income Assistance Estimator - You can estimate how much you may receive on welfare.
• Enquirer's Checklist - The things you need to apply for welfare.
• Assistance Rate Table - Rates for welfare, disability, child in care of a relative, hardship assistance, general supplements, health supplements and programs, and the seniors supplement.

The BC Government's Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance website has a list of all new information on issues of the ministry's concern. Also on this site is a list of Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance publications.

Find out the 2007 Social Assistance rates from the BC government's website.

BC Seniors Office is a BC Government website, in the Ministry of Healthservices, gives information on what services are available for seniors.

The Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance has replace its BCEA manual for a new kind of information provider, entitled, the MEIA Online Resource. You can also access the Ministry Reports and Publications Online.

Individual Regulations are online as follows:

• Income Assistance Regulation
• Disability Benefits Program Regulation
• BC Benefits (Child Care) Regulation

The BC Government Directory is the search page that allows you to search for the addresses, phone and fax numbers for every government office, agency and almost every government employee.

The Stats BC website is a good resource for doing research, since it is provided by the part of the BC government in charge of government sanctioned research and statistics.

The BC MLA Email Addresses webpage not only gives you the email addresses of elected British Columbia provincial representatives it also lists their office phone and fax numbers.

The BC Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance website has information on employment, welfare, and disability.

The Government of BC website links to all government ministries, programs, organizations, and publications.

BC Revised Statutes and Consolidated Regulations webpage provides full text versions of all Acts passed by the BC Government.

BC Employment and Assistance Manual is the BC Ministry of Human Resources site with the online version of the manual.

BC Income Assistance and Shelter Rates are posted on Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance website, in the form of an easy to read table.

The Canadian online resource has extensive links to BC government web sites.

This site provides links to BC's Acts and Regulations.

BC Employment Standards Act is an important document for workers to be familiar with. Available online, this act details labour rules and regulations in BC.