The Trinidad and To­ba­go Blind Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTB­WA) and the Dif­fer­ent­ly-Abled Move­ment are urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to in­crease the dis­abil­i­ty grant when the 2026 Bud­get is pre­sent­ed on Mon­day.

Both or­gan­i­sa­tions al­so told the Gov­ern­ment that the Bud­get should be in­clu­sive, eq­ui­table, and sus­tain­able, en­sur­ing per­sons who are blind, vi­su­al­ly im­paired, or dis­abled are ful­ly in­clud­ed in the na­tion’s de­vel­op­ment agen­da.

The TTB­WA, in a state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day, stressed that a dis­abil­i­ty-in­clu­sive bud­get is not an act of char­i­ty but a mat­ter of na­tion­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ty and sound so­cial pol­i­cy.