To receive a post-secondary education, students living with disabilities require support and accommodation that costs more than what abled students need. Accordingly, students living with disabilities in Ontario rely on various grants to help finance…
The Ontario Court of Appeal granted the Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC) intervener status in Jacob v. Canada (Attorney General). This legal challenge concerns workers living with severe disabilities and their exclusion from receiving pandemic…
The Income Support Advocacy Centre is pleased that the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has found that some provisions of the Safe Streets Act violate the freedom of expression and presumption of innocence of people who panhandle to survive,…
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…
TORONTO, ON – A long-awaited constitutional challenge seeking to strike down the Safe Streets Act and end the criminalization of panhandling in Ontario will be heard in Superior Court starting Tuesday. Lawyers representing Fair Change,…
Social assistance is inadequate in Ontario. People who depend on Ontario Works or Ontario Disability Support Program live in deep poverty, and many do not have enough to afford food, rent, medicine and winter boots.…
An important case concerning access to judicial review of administrative tribunal decisions is scheduled for November 15th before the Supreme Court of Canada. Social assistance recipients have a statutory right to appeal certain decisions about…
When an Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) recipient turns 65, they may qualify for Old Age Security (OAS) benefits. In addition, OAS recipients with low income may also receive additional income support via the Guaranteed…
The Income Security Advocacy Centre and Lake Country Community Legal Clinic jointly represented an Indigenous Elder in a legal challenge to the discrimination and wrongful termination he experienced while working as an Elder for the…
When a person living with disabilities receives Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) income support, they have a responsibility to pursue other government benefits that they may be eligible for. ODSP may withhold income support to…
The Income Security Advocacy Centre and the Grey Bruce Community Legal Clinic recently represented an ODSP recipient who required two caregivers to assist her with her day-to-day activities and literacy-based support. ODSP believed that one of these…