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To build public awareness and inform low-income Ontarians about the issues we’re working on, we create information sheets, backgrounders, and updates as required and circulate them electronically, primarily through our ISAC E-List (subscribe here).

Click on the links below for our latest public education material. Documents related to major topic areas are in the sidebar to the right. All our materials are on our Publications Archive page.

More comprehensive income security law materials can be found on the following websites:

  • Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) produces clear, accurate and practical legal information to help people understand and exercise their legal rights.
  • Your Legal Rights is a project of CLEO, and is a website of free, practical, and easy-to-find legal information produced by hundreds of organizations across Ontario.
  • Have your say on Ontario’s Poverty Reduction Strategy / donnez votre avis sur la Stratégie ontarienne de réduction de la pauvreté March 30, 2020 - ** Français ci-dessous ** The provincial government is conducting consultations for a new poverty reduction strategy for Ontario. Have your say! ISAC has provided a written submission. Informed by ongoing consultation with our community partners on issues relevant to our mandate, we make the following recommendations: Connecting people to good jobs: Recommendation #1: Ensure sufficient funding, inter-ministerial ...
  • Accessing Income Support in the wake of COVID-19 / L’accès au soutien du revenu en raison de la COVID-19 (Updated March 26) March 26, 2020 - This document lists several income support programs that may be available to Ontario residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. This information is changing rapidly and we recommend that you check with the relevant government’s website for updated information. – La version française de ce document est disponible en téléchargement ici – Introduction COVID-19 is a respiratory ...
  • OW and ODSP Rates and the OCB March 2020 / Les taux d’OT, du POSPH et de la POE Mars 2020 March 10, 2020 - – la version française suit dessous – Ontario Works (OW) and Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) rates have not increased this year. However, the Ontario Child Benefit (OCB), for people who have children, has been increased slightly with inflation. The increase to OCB came into effect in July 2019. As in past years, we have ...
  • Fact Sheet: Social Assistance Update November 20, 2019 - It has been almost a year since the Ontario government announced a number of proposed changes to our social assistance programs on Nov. 22, 2018. Many of these changes have been cancelled or postponed as a result of community resistance. This fact sheet explains where we are today. Proposed changes that have been cancelled The ...
  • New data shows Ontario to deny basic needs to approximately 32,000 children September 13, 2019 - The Ontario government has introduced a law that will cancel the Transition Child Benefit on November 1, 2019. With Ontario’s changes, families living in poverty who are ineligible for child tax benefits will experience a significant loss of up to $230 per month per child. A typical two-parent households with two children, for example, will ...
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