Ms. Pavon was an ODSP recipient who accrued an overpayment due to an error by her ODSP worker. She requested an internal review more than one year after the decision. The Social Benefits Tribunal refused…
ISAC co-counselled with the Renfrew County Legal Clinic and Halton Community Legal Services on four Divisional Court appeals relating to the denial of the medical travel allowance. The cases involved four individuals with mental health…
In February 2011, ISAC appeared before the Court of Appeal for Ontario in a case challenging ODSP’s policy of attributing child support as income to adult children, even in cases where the adult children had…
ISAC intervened at the Court of Appeal for Ontario in a case challenging the section of the Ontario Disability Support Program Act that denied benefits to persons with addictions. ISAC argued that the law violated…
ISAC represented three individuals in a class action Charter challenge to the mandatory deduction of $100 each month from social assistance recipients who had been sponsored to come to Canada. The challenge was to be…
ISAC is co-counselling with Niagara North Community Legal Assistance to represent 102 migrant workers who were denied Employment Insurance parental benefits. Each year thousands of migrant agricultural workers come to Canada on a temporary basis…
In order to sponsor certain family members to come to Canada, sponsors have to establish that they have the “minimum necessary income” as required by Canada’s immigration regulations. The income requirement prevents low income people…
Led by the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO), tenant advocates and a group of homeless and inadequately housed individuals commenced a Charter application arguing that Ontario and Canada have violated the Charter by failing…
This case was about whether or not the law allows the Director of ODSP and the Social Benefits Tribunal to waive collection of overpayments in particular circumstances. For many years, people were able to appeal…
ISAC co-counselled with the Grey-Bruce Community Legal Clinic in a Divisional Court appeal of a decision denying ODSP benefits. The issue involved the type of new medical evidence that the Social Benefits Tribunal and the…
In 2006, the Ontario government overhauled the eligibility rules for the Special Diet Allowance, a benefit available to Ontario Works and ODSP recipients who face extra costs because of special dietary needs. Many recipients found…
In 2011/2012, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario held a disciplinary hearing involving Dr. Wong. The case had to do with the manner in which Dr. Wong completed Special Diet Allowance application forms.…