Before you can appeal a decision about assistance from Ontario Works (OW) or the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), you must ask for an internal review of the decision.
You can use this letter-writing tool to ask OW for an internal review or to ask ODSP for an internal review.
Someone in the office that made the decision...
Interim assistance is financial help you might be able to get while you wait for the Social Benefits Tribunal to decide your appeal.
If you disagree with a decision by Ontario Works (OW) or the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), you may be able to appeal to the Social Benefits Tribunal (SBT).
The SBT is not part of OW or ODSP and can decide that an OW or ODSP decision is wrong.
Income support is money you get from the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) to help pay for living expenses, like housing and food. It also helps pay for some prescription drugs and may help pay for some dental services.
And some people can get:
Income is how much money you get from any source. For example, income includes money you earn from a job, support payments, government benefits like workers’ compensation, or money that family or friends give you as a gift.
Financial assistance is money you get from Ontario Works (OW) to help pay for living expenses, like housing and food.
It also helps pay for some prescription drugs and may help pay for some dental services. And some people can get:
You get a Disability Determination Package when you apply to the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) and need an approved health professional to give information that proves you’re a “person with a disability”.
The package includes 4 forms:
The Disability Adjudication Unit (DAU) is part of the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP).
The DAU decides whether you meet the ODSP definition of a person with a disability.
They do not interview you or give you a medical examination.
They make their decision using the information they get from you and the health professionals who...
Developmental services institutions were run by the Ontario government.
People who were labelled with intellectual disabilities lived in these institutions. The last one closed in 2009.
People who get Ontario Works (OW) assistance may have to do community placements.
Community placements are sometimes called “community participation” or “voluntary placement”.
People in community placements work at non-profit, community, or public organizations. Examples of these types of organizations are schools, daycare centres, food...