BC pensioner homeless after losing apartment following lengthy hospital stay
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 เม.ย. 2023
- A pensioner in B.C. is currently homeless after a hospital stay that lasted longer than expected.
Rhonda Elliott of Penticton, B.C., 69, says she went in for colon cancer surgery on Feb. 3, with the operation happening six days later.
The South Okanagan resident claims that complications ensued, and she wound up staying in hospital until late March. After being discharged, she returned to her apartment, only to find it had been cleaned out, with her possessions having been relocated to a local storage company.
“When I got out of the hospital, I went to go home and found out I didn’t have a home,” an emotional Elliott told Global News on Tuesday. Taya Fast has more details on her situation.
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This is beyond sad. How some people can end up so alone in the world.
@@punkinhoot
Or not even bother starting a family.
@@shauncameron8390 you should be ashamed of yourself
@@cormacgreene8505 Don't engage with Not Sees. Their are intensely evil, explaining the difference between right and wrong will only waste your time. Flag their hate speech and move on.
This happens everyday in Canada
I know this video is absolutely necessary right now, but I am just being honest. I couldn't finish it. I got near the end, but when she started crying 😢. I sincerely hope everything works out for her..
She has a pension, though. Many are even worse off. She has more options than many.
Well thanks to this news story I'm sure it will work out for her, thank you Global for that at least.
You're absolutely right ✅️ I think being an empath just makes content of this nature hard to see first-hand, but I am growing self-aware every day & with that a better stomach just so I can simply learn.
@@rickallen9099 yeah but for her at her age.
The people around her should have been more caring. How dare they do this?
When it comes down to it , it should have never happened in the first place. Doesn't matter who is or isn't better off. She's asking for a helping hand & she deserves one , just like everyone else who paid into society & was simply born. Doesn't matter where you come from or what you look like ,we are all children of God. That's deserving enough in my own personal opinion.
Heart breaking! Looks like someone made the decision to declare her dead, stop her pension and close her bank account without trying to find out what happened to Rhonda Elliott. I wonder if there were any emergency contact in her files???
What an absolute nightmare! Poor woman. I hope things work out for her. Thank goodness the media is working for her.
this property management company is disgusting and should feel obligated to help her
The public has spent good money for prisons to house criminal landlords. USE THEM!
This is the cruelty, Government is responsible for the all things for pensioners because they gave their life to serve country.
Don’t vote Trudeau
This is the type of fear single seniors with no family face all the time. 😥Poor dear, I hope this news report brings a lot of support for her. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Choosing career and lifestyle over family while young do have consequences.
If they packed up her apartment that quickly they obviously didn't go through the proper channels in having someone evicted, it takes a few months to get an order of possession and have a court bailiff change the locks, and same with her bank account, pension payments are usually directly deposited. Something is missing here.
This woman is in an absolute terrible scenario. My dad was declared dead and didn’t even go to a hospital. He didn’t know until his pension cheque quit coming in. It took two months and a ton of frustrating phone calls to bring him back to life. If there is a go fund me account please let me know. You have no idea the government bureaucracy involved to bring someone back to life. They all think you’re dead
And i thought losing my wallet was a pain in the rear end. I can only imagine what that would be like.
Isn’t this why we have social workers in hospitals? To check in with people and see if they need the most basics of support? SW: “Who takes care of you at home?” P: “I’m on my own” SW: “Do you own or rent?” A five second conversation. Perhaps she was to incapacitated; in that case, SW should have looked for an emergency contact. No emergency contact, gee, well-guess I have to do my job!
Lol, goverment worker do their job. Your so funny
They do have social workers who do that. This story does not make sense to me. This woman needs help to get her life back on track.
Maybe the social worker was on vacation at that time.
@@sessions9869 I’m a regular comedian.
Hahaha hahaha
Nope... doesn't exist...
What a the hell. Make this woman whole now.
Sending prayers that she get out of this situation fast.
Being old is tough, when we are struggling, and our Prime Minister spends 163 thousand dollars for a family vacation of taxpayers money.Canada should get angry at this travesty and swindling , of Canada's monetary resources.
Good job Canada ! Soon we we'll all be homeless 🙏
This is worse than just homelesness. Sumebody just wiped out this old lady from this world.
Quite ridiculous. Landlords being greedy as usual. They will get the same treatment when their day comes. Glad to see some actions have been taken and she has a sister and a good friend helping out. Hope housing gets resolved for her soon or someone steps up more to help.
She's espically screwed now that rents have gone way up. Sad
WHO the heck thought she was dead?!?! Don’t you check with doctors and nurses? WHO closed her bank account?!?! Come on, this is such crap! WHO the gel is playing god and doing as they please to this woman!?!?
It's not the landlord or the government's job to check with her doctors.
The bank due to lack of activity for a month.
Property Management company can be sued under the circumstances
"the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable"
- Mahatma Gandhi
*Shame on her community, shame on the BC gov't and shame on Canada*
Wow how low has Canada fallen?
Someone was way too excited at a chance to raise the rent
Horrific 😢😔
My heart and prayers with this lady.
This poor woman. Someone needs to go to jail for this.
The Apartment administration was really cruel and inhuman. They never care to ask about the whereabouts of the senior paying them rent with her pension. The bank also should be sued legally for closing her account without a death certificate. Now she can not received her much needed pension check. This lady needs an attorney to help her and protect her from all the hyenas that where declaring her death to take away her roof and pension benefits.
The public has spent good money for prisons to house criminal landlords. USE THEM!
I stayed there for 2 years while moving from one area to another. It was the most HORRIBLE experience of my life. Broadstreet are ONLY interested in the rent, don't carry out maintenance, don't deal with the severe crime and drug issues in the buildings, don't respond to tenants, total hell on earth living there with the scum they take. The smell in the buildings is terrible, smoking and drugs run rampant.
Do people not know how to use phones anymore? They could've called her before taking such drastic action
By the looks of it the people who run those apartment buildings were a bit to eager to raise up the rent on that particular apartment and just hoped and prayed the lady actually died 😂
The public has spent good money for prisons to house criminal landlords. USE THEM!
That is truly bad for her and those places that should of helped her are truly disgusting that should not in the first place happened to her. And why do that to her .
I can't type the comment I'd like to leave. Absolutely Infuriating🤬..., if this happened to my Mom...
How did the bank come to the conclusion that she was deceased? There's a lot missing in this story and what's here doesn't make sense
Old people are lonely lonely lonely. So sad and cruel
How did the various agencies (cpp, oas, gis, bank, etc.) close her files without a death certificate?
Sus af
This is disgusting that anyone would treat this lady so terribly
How did this happen? If they had no proof of death there is no way they should have been able to clear out her apartment in less than 2 months. If she had paid last months rent as most people do, that apartment was still paid for by her. Either this was an illegal evictions or we aren't hearing the whole story.
This is sad, it would suck to be in this situation... this person needs help. 😎
I worked in a hospital for years and people like this woman if they don't have someone to pay their bills during their hospital stay will have their affairs handled by hospital social workers.
Aww, I hope she will be ok!
This sucks,but if she was able to contact the news,why didn't she call the landlord and mention that she would be staying in the hospital?
Maybe just now well enough to contact someone that is out of the hospital. Maybe she had a breathing tube down her throat for 2 months. Doesn't have a cell.
....if you are old and poor in one of the richest countries...
About BC housing:
In January they quit paying rent subsidies to many low income seniors without notice.
Quite a few of them you ll find camping in a park soon.
The NDP government in BC has failed this woman. Shame on them.
I pray that someone helps this lady...
She needs huge public support here.
I do not know her . But someone needs to start a GoFundMe for her something
I hope canadians help this poor woman in her time of great need, that apartment complex i think should accompany her cuz of misunderstandings, come on canadians 😢
this is what govt & media has done
Where are these woman's kids? They need to step up to the plate. Any immediate family?
Maybe she didn't bother having any.
That Is So Sad And So Wrong 😢
Wow this is so sad
Where is the billion that JT was able to give to Ukraine? Does he ever think about people like her? If anyone knows of a go fund me page for this woman, please share 🙏
Would she get that billion otherwise?
She needs a fund and I am willing to contribute.
That’s why I’m leaving Canada. I’m not going down with a sinking ship
where you going, florida?
This is disgusting ,really disgusted with the government
Wouldn’t you call the hospital?
How come my elderly relatives are the ones who want to die and not be a burden to family and society?
Usually relatives, friends, neighbors and family lawyers manage affairs when someone's at the hospital. It looks like she just dropped out of sight without saying nothing to nobody. Next time, pick up your phone and notify people if you're going to be gone for months. They got telephones at the hospital.
God bless her ❤
Something sounds off to me about this. It's the closing her bank account that doesn't sound right. Many people actually pass away and their bank accounts stay open for a very long time. In fact the government has a website that people can look up unclaimed money from loved ones because the banks did not know a person has passed away unless a family member tells them and even then, it's not that easy to do.
I hope to see a follow up. I concur, something sounds off.
It seems someone one at BC Housing or if she has a worker really messed up. People die all the time and have account open until an executive or proof has been provided to the bank that the person is deceased.
Wonder where is her family?
Good question.
Just another example of wht you need a family.
@Mark Twain
Either they dedicated their lives to career and lifestyle or drank the overpopulation Kool-Aid.
But Canadians these days are too woke for that.
@@punkinhoot
Why don't you do that first?
Usually the seniors live alone because lost their husbands and wives. Even you have children but not necessarily they'll be around when you getting old and sick. Where are the social workers?
Why is the government not giving her emergency help??
Vacationing in Jamaica
Look at how much the government discriminates with its own people. The seniors who built this country have to go through this whereas if she was refugee all governments will run and carry her on their shoulders and give free money as long as she wants. Some people may argue that she and refugees are facing different situations. I agree but i also have a counter argument that spend less on refugees and take care of this seniors. Refugees don't cry on camera like she has cried.. who is to blame? Nobody else but ourselves.because we elect government who only cares about votebank..
Any follow up on this?
That this is happening in Canada is disgusting, we are turning into if not already as greedy as the USA anything for money, money has no compassion or feelings, Lets see if our beloved politicians do something about this eh!!!!!
Why? This is not the politician's problem. Due to her lengthy hospital stay, she missed a rent payment.
Sounds like hospital filed paperwork if her bank account was closed.
Where is this lady, we cannot leave her out there gawd, I live in Prince George , she can come and stay with me good gawd.
Have her try robbing a bank. I bet the government would make her alive in less than a day.
Thats why its nice to have lots of kids.
Oh Canada😢
So what is the solution here??? Why is it so easy for the strong to erase the weak. NO. How do we help. Unacceptable
This is the NDP healthcare system and government 🤔,becareful Alberta.
Sue illegsl eviction... wait till the storage fees add up
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The public has spent good money for prisons to house criminal landlords. USE THEM!
Trudeau must go
Enjoy the brexit
She probably died of covid😂