The Ontario government is allowing recipients to earn more money from working before clawing back their benefits, but advocates say 95 per cent of ODSP recipients will see no change to their monthly income. ottnews
Terrie Meehan, a former activist and a person with disability who is currently on ODSP, is shown in Ottawa, on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. Terrie Meehan will sometimes go days eating just one meal a day to stretch her food supply. Some days, Terrie Meehan goes long stretches eating just one meal a day to stretch out her food supply.
The change will allow ODSP recipients to earn $1,000 from working, up from $200 previously. For each dollar earned above the $1000 exemption, the person with disability would keep 25 cents. In addition to her ODSP benefit, she earns a few hundred dollars a month picking up gig work when she can, like using her wheelchair to deliver Uber Eats.
The Ontario auditor general said in 2018-19, 510,000 people received ODSP support. When the provincial government announced it was increasing the earning exemption it said it would help 25,000 people. In September 2022 the provincial government increased program payments by 5 per cent. The change increased the maximum payment by $58 a month, to $1,228.Jennifer Robson, an associate professor and program director of political management at Carleton University, said the earnings exemption increase in no way closes the gap to get ODSP rates up to an acceptable minimum.
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