Category: ODSP
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Update on the ODSP front. I thinks I may have spooked Wingnut.
You’ll remember I made mention to the fact my caseworker, who we’re still calling Wingnut, has been sort of using privacy laws as a protective shield. To the point of even if the roommate was in the room and could give permission, she wasn’t interested. I get a call from … Read the rest
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Schooling ODSP in the art of numbers.
So as any of you who’ve been reading this thing since December are aware, it’s been somewhat of an uphill fight between the Ontario disability Support Program (ODSP), Shane, and myself. We’d go a round or two, find a clue, offer it up and have it escentially kicked across … Read the rest
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In which I get an introduction to ODSP math.
I’ve been on ODSP’s case for, like, ever about not escentially drumming us out of the running financially, for what little my being on them’s managed to accomplish. For those just tuning in, ODSP is the Ontario Disability Support Program, also known as those folks what pay me because no … Read the rest
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Note to the city of Ottawa: do this. Now.
Rallying cry for more housing money In what can only be described as a rallying cry for more support, affordable housing advocates from across Ottawa came together Thursday to call on municipal council and mayoral candidates to commit to funding more social housing. The numbers are pretty simple: $15 million … Read the rest
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It’s amazing what some folks will call a disability now.
I’m still curious what the human rights people’s explanation is for this. The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld rulings that denying two chronic alcoholics long-term support payments would violate the province’s Human Rights Code. The Ontario Disability Support Program had argued over the years the men should be … Read the rest
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If you’re in Toronto in July and have an interest in supporting ODSP recipients, check this out.
Date July 7, 2010 Time 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Where Metro Hall Rotunda, Toronto Event source ODSP Action Coalition ——————————————————————————– From an ODSP Action Coalition announcement: Please join us on July 7th for the ODSP Action Coalition’s event “Telling Our Stories: Disability Should Not Equal Poverty”. This event will … Read the rest
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MPP couldn’t survive on welfare.
MPP couldn’t survive on welfare Sarnia-Lambton MPP Bob Bailey did the math and says Ontario should do more for people on social assistance. Bailey is one of 18 MPPs who filled out a “Do The Math” survey for the Social Planning Network of Ontario — a group asking the government … Read the rest
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MCSS finally responds, tells me to look at the big picture.
the below is pretty much a deconstruction attempt of the Ministry of Community and Social Services’s response to inquiries re: status of welfare/ODSP payments, and how changes to those payments are likely to affect us, if they change at all. You can read my take on it, or skip to … Read the rest
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The newspaper called it. Social assistance programs definitely aren’t being fixed.
The Star provides a rather interesting take on why it is the province of Ontario, and indeed many other governments both in and out of Canada, are usually pretty hesitant to fix systems like welfare, or the only slightly less crippling disability support system. In a nutshell, the province views … Read the rest
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The Ontario government tries, very hard, to explain its budget changes. And fails horribly.
At the end of March, we got a good look at Dalton McGuinty’s definition of equality. Which, really, isn’t much of a definition at all. They’ve since come out with a feel-good statement explaining how the cancelation of ODSP’s special diet allowance, which will be replaced by a thinggy to … Read the rest