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Social Assistance Rates

Each time the provincial government makes a change to the amount of money provided to people receiving Ontario Works (OW) and Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) benefits, we produce a new “rates sheet”.

We hope that this information is useful to people receiving OW and ODSP and the agencies and organizations that work with them.

  • OW and ODSP Rates and the OCB March 2020 / Les taux d’OT, du POSPH et de la POE Mars 2020 March 10, 2020 - – la version française suit dessous – Ontario Works (OW) and Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) rates have not increased this year. However, the Ontario Child Benefit (OCB), for people who have children, has been increased slightly with inflation. The increase to OCB came into effect in July 2019. As in past years, we have ...
  • Ontario Budget 2019 Announces $1 Billion in OW and ODSP Cuts April 11, 2019 - – 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 Support Program (ODSP) system. While the Budget is short on details about changes to social assistance, it confirms many of ...
  • OW and ODSP Rates and the OCB 2018 / Les taux d’OT, du POSPH et de la POE 2018 September 10, 2018 - – la version française suit dessous – Ontario Works (OW) and Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) rates are being increased later this month, as announced on July 31, 2018. As in past years, we have created a rates sheet to let people on social assistance, and people who work with them, know what these increases mean. ...
  • Ontario’s Social Assistance System: 100 days to fix it or to break it? August 16, 2018 - This post, by Jennefer Laidley at ISAC, originally appeared on the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO) blog on Thursday, August 16, 2018  Eleven years ago, I started work at the Income Security Advocacy Centre, a legal clinic advocating for improvements to the income benefit programs available to low-income Ontarians, with social assistance as a ...
  • Future of OW/ODSP Changes Uncertain: Take Action! July 23, 2018 - – la version française suit dessous –  A few weeks ago, we circulated information about changes that are slated to take effect in Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program starting this fall, and others that are already in place. Since then, over 7,100 of you have downloaded this information, showing us that these changes are ...
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