© CAOT PUBLICATIONS ACE volume 65 • issue 4 Disability income: The experiences of women with multiple sclerosis

This paper examines the experiences of unemployed women with multiple sclerosis with three income support programmes, the Canada/Quebec Pension Plan, long term disability insurance and social assistance. Findings are based on ethnographic interviews with 23 women. Difficulties experienced with these programmes include the low level of benefits of two of the programmes, the earnings-based component of two of the programmes, and require-ments in eligibility criteria tha