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Fact Sheet: Social Assistance Update

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…

November 20, 2019
Policy Advocacy, Public Education, Social Assistance Reform

New data shows Ontario to deny basic needs to approximately 32,000 children

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…

September 13, 2019
Canada Child Benefit (CCB), General, Public Education, Social Assistance Reform, Transition Child Benefit (TCB)

Changes coming to Employment Insurance Appeal Process

The Government of Canada has announced that it is making changes to the way that workers appeal Employment Insurance (EI) decisions. Starting in April 2021, workers will appeal to a new Employment Insurance Boards of…

August 20, 2019
Access to Justice, Employment Insurance (EI), Public Education, Social Security Tribunal

Benefit for Children To Be Cut from OW/ODSP

We have recently learned that the Ontario government plans on eliminating a benefit that allows some parents on Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Program to feed and clothe their children. The Transition Child Benefit…

May 16, 2019
Canada Child Benefit (CCB), Ontario Child Benefit (OCB), Policy Advocacy, Public Education, Social Assistance, Transition Child Benefit (TCB)

Take Action! Community Legal Clinic Services Under Threat

The provincial government’s recent budget made cuts to a number of public programs and services, which will hurt low-income people in Ontario. This includes cuts to social assistance, public health, library services, prescription coverage for…

May 1, 2019
Access to Justice, Community Organizing, Litigation, Policy Advocacy, Public Education

Ontario Budget 2019 Announces $1 Billion in OW and ODSP Cuts

– Massive Cuts to Legal Aid Funding Also Announced – The 2019/2020 Ontario Budget was announced today, and creates even more uncertainty for people who receive benefits from the Ontario Works (OW) and Ontario Disability…

April 11, 2019
Provincial Budgets, Public Education, Social Assistance Rates, Social Assistance Reform

File Your Taxes: New federal tax credit this year

It’s almost tax time again! For low-income Ontarians, filing your income tax return is important as you may be able to benefit from tax credits that will either increase your income or reduce the amount…

March 22, 2019
Public Education

End Employment Insurance discrimination against women / Mettre fin à la discrimination

* La version française suit * End Employment Insurance discrimination against women In the mid-1990s, Canada’s unemployment insurance system underwent a massive change. At that time, whether or not an unemployed worker qualified for payments…

February 8, 2019
Community Organizing, Employment Insurance (EI), General, Policy Advocacy, Public Education

Changes Ontario is Proposing to OW and ODSP

Note: This information may now be out of date, as some of the announced changes have since been canceled. For an update, see this fact sheet. On November 22, 2018, Minister Lisa MacLeod announced a…

February 7, 2019
Policy Advocacy, Public Education, Social Assistance Reform

OW & ODSP: What is a “Health Spending Account”? / OT & POSPH : Qu’est-ce qu’un « compte gestion-santé »?

What a “Health Spending Account” might mean to people on OW & ODSP On November 22, the Minister of Children, Community and Social Services announced a number of proposed changes to the social assistance system…

February 5, 2019
Public Education, Social Assistance Reform

Improving access to justice for Indigenous people: New inter-regional Gladue Briefs Project

Community legal clinics in the south-west region of Ontario, along with Thunder Bay’s Kinna’aweya legal clinic and the Income Security Advocacy Centre, have joined together in a Gladue Briefs Project with the aim of ensuring…

January 29, 2019
Human Rights, Indigenous Justice, Litigation, Public Education

Important Survey on How Canada Measures Poverty: Jan 31 deadline

An important consultation is happening right now on the way that Canada measures poverty. The federal government has said that it will make the Market Basket Measure (MBM) Canada’s official poverty line, and will use…

January 21, 2019
Policy Advocacy, Poverty Reduction Strategy, Public Education
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This site contains general legal information for people in Ontario, Canada. It is not intended to be used as legal advice for a specific legal problem. ISAC is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization. ISAC is funded by Legal Aid Ontario (LAO). The funding for this website is also provided by LAO. The views expressed in any of ISAC’s publications (including written, oral, or visual) are the views of the clinic and do not necessarily reflect those of LAO.