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RSS FeedsHealth care, social service groups unite to fight Ford government´s proposed welfare changes
(The Star Food)

 
 

2 october 2019 22:30:06

 
Health care, social service groups unite to fight Ford government´s proposed welfare changes
(The Star Food)
 


An unprecedented coalition of more than 80 Ontario health care and social service organizations is urging the Ford government to reverse a proposed welfare change that could deny disability support to tens of thousands of people with cancer, HIV and mental illness.“Changing the definition of disability could compromise the health of people across the province and negatively impact overall well-being,” they say in a letter sent Wednesday to Todd Smith, minister of children, community and social services.Dr. Gary Bloch, a member of Health Providers Against Poverty, which regularly advocates for low-income patients, said it is unusual for apolitical groups such as the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), the Ontario College of Family Physicians and the Ontario Psychiatric Association to raise the alarm.“These are organizations that I have not seen sign a letter like this in the past,” he said. “To me it is a sign that there is real anxiety around this proposed change.”Former minister Lisa MacLeod announced last November that the Ford government would be narrowing the definition of disability for the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) to more closely align with guidelines used in federal programs such as Canada Pension Plan-Disability, or CPP-D.Anti-poverty and disability activists have opposed the move because the CPP-D definition doesn’t include people with temporary or episodic disabilities such as cancer, lupus and some mental illnesses. They worry the change would force thousands of ill and disabled people in the province to rely on Ontario Works (OW), a program geared to employment with maximum benefits of just $733 a month.The maximum basic needs and shelter benefit under ODSP for a single person is $1,169, or just over $14,000 a year. (Benefits under both programs fall significantly below Ontario’s poverty line of about $23,000 for a single person in 2017.)“Restrictive reforms limiting ac ...


 
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