Solberg said his party isn’t planning on making any changes to Alberta’s billion-dollar Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH) program, slammed by the auditor general in 2016 as a broken system.

He said a UCP government would continue to index AISH and seniors benefits to inflation (a change implemented by the NDP last year), though the Alberta Party would backfill benefits to the tune of $1,779 per month to match inflation from 2012.

The UCP also wants to convene a Registered Disability Savings Plan action group, allocate $500,000 annually to help Albertans get federal grants and bonds, expand family managed supports model to new resource centres in Edmonton, Grande Prairie, St. Paul and Medicine Hat, and provide $2 million to post-secondary institutions to support students with developmental disabilities.