Services in Ontario - Child tax benefits
Legal clinics
Website
https://www.legalaid.on.ca/services/legal-clinics/Contact Information
Phone 416-979-1446 Toll-free 1-800-668-8258 TTY 416-598-8867 Toll-free TTY 1-866-641-8867Legal Aid Ontario funds legal clinics across Ontario. There are two types of legal clinics: community legal clinics and specialty legal clinics.
Community legal clinics provide free legal services to people with low incomes who live in their area. Most help with:
- Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program
- tenants’ rights
- the Canada Pension Plan, Old Age Security, and the Guaranteed Income Supplement
- employment problems
Some clinics can help with immigration and refugee problems or debt and consumer problems.
Search for the clinic in your area using your postal code.
Some specialty legal clinics provide free legal services to specific groups of people with low incomes:
- Advocacy Centre for the Elderly
- Aboriginal Legal Services
- ARCH Disability Law Centre
- Black Legal Action Centre
- Centre Francophone du Grand Toronto
- Chinese and South Asian Legal Clinic
- Centre for Spanish Speaking Peoples
- HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario
- Justice for Children and Youth
- South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario
Some specialty legal clinics provide free legal services in only certain areas of law:
Tribunals Ontario – Social Benefits Tribunal (SBT)
Website
https://tribunalsontario.ca/sbt/Contact Information
Phone 416-326-0978 Toll-free 1-800-753-3895 Toll-free TTY 1-800-855-0511 (Bell Relay Service)The tribunal makes decisions on appeals about Ontario Works (OW) and the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP). It’s not part of OW or ODSP and can decide that an OW or ODSP decision is wrong.
Go the website to get appeal forms and information about making an appeal.
Service Canada
Website
https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/corporate/portfolio/service-canada.htmlContact Information
Toll-free 1-800-206-7218 TTY 1-800-529-3742Service Canada is a central place to access a wide range of government services and benefits, including Employment Insurance, Old Age Security, Canada Pension Plan, Social Insurance Numbers, and passports. There are Service Canada offices across Ontario.
Service Canada’s Benefits Finder suggests benefits from the Canadian and provincial governments that you may be able to get.
