B.C. to reimburse methadone patients for taking clinic fees off welfare cheques

VANCOUVER — An application filed in the B.C. Supreme Court says the provincial governments has agreed to pay back more than $5.5 million in fees deducted from the income-assistance cheques of methadone patients.
Details of the agreement were filed by plaintiff Laura Shaver and outline how B.C. will reimburse 70 per cent of the $7.7 million, plus interest, collected from more than 11,700 methadone patients.
A proposed class-action lawsuit was launched two years ago aimed at preventing priva