Nabila Qureshi and Anu Bakshi, ISAC Staff Lawyers, and Anna Rosenbluth from the Clinic Resource Office have published an article in the Canadian Journal of Administrative Law and Practice entitled “Yatar v. TD Insurance Meloche…
There are just under two weeks left in the consultation period for feedback on the new Canada Disability Benefit (CDB)! The consultation is open until September 23. We have done a line-by-line analysis of the…
The Canada Disability Benefit Act was passed in the House of Commons in Spring 2023, but the details of the Canada Disability Benefit (CDB) are still being worked out by government staff. We are currently…
Appeal rights are a necessary component of income support programs, writes former ISAC public health student Abby Taher. What would the ideal appeals process look like for the CDB? Abby has shared some ideas in…
On June 6, Anu Bakshi, Staff Lawyer at the Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC), and Erik Bornmann, Director of Guided Pathways at CLEO, gave a workshop designed for frontline/community workers to learn more about the…
When we posted our last update in February 2024, we were waiting to hear more about what the government was going to include in the first draft of the detailed rules on how the law…
Do you support clients who applied for Canadian Pension Plan–Disability (CPP-D) benefits and were denied? Or who had their request for reconsideration declined? This webinar will help community workers understand the CPP-D reconsideration and appeal…
The Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC) is pleased that the Ontario Divisional Court has found that the Social Benefits Tribunal’s practice of issuing “boilerplate” reasons when denying a reconsideration breaches procedural fairness. In recent years,…
On Friday, April 26, ISAC sent the following letter to Minister Freeland and Minister Khera regarding the disappointing information announced about the Canada Disability Benefit in the 2024 Federal Budget. The letter was endorsed by…
On Friday March 18, 2024, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in Yatar v. TD Insurance Meloche Monnex. The Income Security Advocacy Centre intervened in this case to highlight the perspective of social…
The Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)*, Pro Bono Ontario, and law firm Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP have partnered on a public interest project: the “CERB/CRB Pro Bono Program.” This program will provide pro bono…
On June 22, 2023, Bill C-22 received Royal Assent and became law. We now have a Canada Disability Benefit Act. This is great news, but the important work of figuring out the details of the…