Former youth-in-care Jade Ryan was hoping to get some tuition support from the province to help cover her classes at Douglas College this fall on her road to a nursing degree.

Instead, the 26-year-old is struggling to make ends meet and has taken up work at a strip club several times a week just to pay the bills because the B.C. General Employees Union strike, alongside Canada Post service disruptions, have caused extensive delays with application processing and payment delivery for a number of government grant programs.

“Now that my shifts are increasing to three to four days a week, I’m expecting a little bit more money,” said Ryan. “But it’s also just frustrating because I turn 27 in May, and that means I lose my support in May, and MCFD (Ministry of Children and Family Development) h

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