In November 2014, Ontario’s new social assistance computer program went live. The computer program caused wide-spread problems, including recipients receiving the wrong benefit amounts, getting faulty suspension letters and not receiving health-related benefits. The union…
In 2013, Canada changed sentencing laws to require anyone convicted of an offence (or discharged) to pay a mandatory “victim surcharge” regardless of whether or not they can afford to pay the fine. Every person…
Kelly Lesiuk was denied Employment Insurance (EI) benefits because, as a mother working part-time, she was unable to accumulate the number of work hours necessary to qualify. Ms. Lesiuk launched a Charter challenge to the…
Ms. Miller challenged the reduction in the regular benefit period for Employment Insurance (EI) claimants who have previously received special benefits such as maternity, parental or disability benefits. She argued that this automatic reduction violated…
In 2002, ISAC represented two public interest intervenors in the inquest into the death of Kimberly Rogers (link to Coroner’s Ruling on Standing Application here, download will automatically start). The year before, Kimberly Rogers had…
Since the implementation of the Canada Child Tax Benefit (CCTB) by the federal government in July 1998, the province of Ontario deducted the National Child Benefit Supplement (NCBS) portion of this benefit from income assistance…
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…