Ontario Disability Support Program policy directives for income support

Preamble

1. Applying for Income Support

• 1.1 — Applications
• 1.2 — Disability adjudication process
• 1.3 — Rapid reinstatement
• 1.4 — Date of grant
• 1.5 — Exceptional circumstances for issuing paper cheques

2. Eligibility Requirements: Who Is Eligible

• 2.1 — Who is eligible: dependent adults
• 2.2 — Who is eligible: dependent children
• 2.3 — Spouse
• 2.4 — Absent from Ontario
• 2.5 — Tourists, immigrants, refugees and deportees
• 2.6 — Incarceration
• 2.7 — People involved in labour disputes
• 2.8 — Participation requirements for non-disabled adult dependents
• 2.9 — Medical reviews

3. Documentation Requirements

• 3.1 — Reviewing eligibility
• 3.2 — Statutory declarations

4. Assets

• 4.1 — Definition and treatment of assets
• 4.2 — Real property
• 4.4 — Transfer of assets for inadequate consideration
• 4.5 — Motor vehicles
• 4.6 — Compensation awards
• 4.7 — Funds held in trust
• 4.8 — Life insurance policies
• 4.9 — Pre-paid funerals
• 4.10 — Registered disability savings plans

5. Income

• 5.1 — Definition and treatment of income
• 5.2 — Assignment of retroactive income
• 5.3 — Deductions from employment and training income
• 5.4 — Self-employment income
• 5.5 — Child care deductions
• 5.6 — Private home day care provider
• 5.7 — Farm income
• 5.8 — Gifts and voluntary payments
• 5.9 — Disability-related items and services
• 5.10 — Loans
• 5.11 — Post-secondary education
• 5.12 — Mortgage receivable
• 5.13 — Adoption subsidy
• 5.14 — Treatment of federal and provincial benefits for families with children
• 5.15 — Spousal and child support
• 5.16 — Income support protected from seizure or garnishment
• 5.17 — Subrogation
• 5.18 — Exemption of earnings of post-secondary students

6. Calculation of Income Support

• 6.1 — Basic needs calculation
• 6.2 — Shelter calculation
• 6.3 — Board and lodge
• 6.4 — Special diet allowance
• 6.5 — Pregnancy/breast-feeding nutritional allowance

7. Extension of Income Support

• 7.1 — Extension of income support
• 7.2 — Death of a recipient

8. Recipients in Institutional Settings

• 8.1 — Budgetary requirements for recipients living in residences providing specialized care
• 8.2 — Treatment of budgetary requirements – temporary stays in a hospital or substance abuse recovery home
• 8.3 — Special items for residents in chronic care
• 8.4 — Travel and transportation allowances for recipients in charitable institutions
• 8.5 — Budgetary requirements for applicants/recipients residing in interval or transition homes

9. Benefits

• 9.1 — Employment and training start up benefit and up front child care costs
• 9.3 — Heating costs
• 9.5 — Utilities
• 9.6 — Assistive devices
• 9.7 — Dental benefits
• 9.8 — Drug benefits
• 9.9 — Guide dog benefit
• 9.10 — Extended health benefit
• 9.11 — Hearing aids
• 9.12 — Mandatory special necessities
• 9.13 — Mobility devices batteries and repairs
• 9.14 — Vision care benefits
• 9.16 — Discretionary benefit for low-cost energy-conservation measures
• 9.17 — Employment transition benefit
• 9.18 — Work-related benefit
• 9.19 — Transitional health benefit
• 9.20 — Transition child benefit

10. Trustees and Pay Direct

• 10.1 — Pay direct
• 10.2 — Trustees

11. Recovery of Funds

• 11.1 — Recovery of overpayments
• 11.2 — Overpayments due to excess assets
• 11.3 — Spouse's overpayment
• 11.4 — Portability of overpayment

12. Fraud And Information Sharing

• 12.1 — Controlling fraud
• 12.2 — Information sharing authority

13. Internal Reviews And Appeals

• 13.1 — Notice of decision and internal review process
• 13.2 — Appeals
• 13.3 — Recovery of interim assistance