Ontario Works policy directives

Section 1

• 1.1 Overview of Ontario Works

Section 2

• 2.1 Application process
• 2.2 Reapplications and reinstatements
• 2.3 Emergency assistance
• 2.4 Referral to the Ontario Disability Support Program
• 2.5 Participation requirements
• 2.6 Employment information session
• 2.7 Emergency hostel services — First Nations delivery agents
• 2.8 Home visits

Section 3

• 3.1 Residency requirements
• 3.2 Residential arrangements
• 3.3 Co-residency
• 3.4 Living with parents
• 3.5 Applicants and participants under 18
• 3.6 Trusteeship
• 3.7 Pay direct
• 3.8 Post-secondary students
• 3.9 Dependent children
• 3.10 Temporary care assistance
• 3.11 Sponsored immigrants
• 3.12 Labour disputes

Section 4

• 4.1 Summary of assets
• 4.2 Asset limits
• 4.3 Real property
• 4.4 Business assets
• 4.5 Motor vehicles
• 4.6 Settlement agreements and other awards
• 4.7 Pensions, RRSPs and RESPs
• 4.8 Life insurance policies
• 4.9 Prepaid funerals
• 4.10 Funds held in trust
• 4.11 Assignment and transfer of assets

Section 5

• 5.1 Income and exemptions
• 5.2 Assignments
• 5.3 Earnings exemptions
• 5.4 Child care deductions
• 5.5 Family support
• 5.6 Federal and provincial benefits for families with children
• 5.7 Gifts and voluntary payments
• 5.8 Interest and dividends
• 5.9 Loans
• 5.10 Subrogation
• 5.11 Farm income
• 5.12 Private child care income
• 5.13 Self-employment income

Section 6

• 6.1 Calculating assistance
• 6.2 Basic needs
• 6.3 Shelter
• 6.4 Board and lodging
• 6.5 Pregnancy and breast-feeding nutritional allowance
• 6.6 Special diet allowance
• 6.7 Persons in long term care homes
• 6.8 Persons in interval and transition homes
• 6.9 Persons in a hospital
• 6.10 Persons in residential programs for the treatment of substance abuse
• 6.11 Persons in domiciliary-type hostels
• 6.12 Persons detained in custody
• 6.13 Calculating reduced assistance
• 6.14 Recovery of transition child benefit
• 6.15 Protection from seizure or garnishment
• 6.16 Emergency hostels and shelters — Consolidated Municipal Service Managers (CMSMs) and District Social Services Administration Boards (DSSABs)

Section 7

• 7.1 Summary of benefits
• 7.2 Health benefits
• 7.3 Extended health benefits
• 7.4 Employment and participation benefits
• 7.5 Housing-related benefits
• 7.6 Transition child benefit
• 7.7 Other benefits
• 7.8 Assistive devices

Section 8

• 8.1 Early employment supports
• 8.2 Learning, Earning and Parenting (LEAP)
• 8.3 Literacy screening, assessment and training
• 8.4 Addiction Services Initiative (ASI)
• 8.5 Employment placements
• 8.6 Community placements
• 8.7 Child care supports

Section 9

• 9.1 Reviewing eligibility
• 9.2 Absence from Ontario
• 9.3 Recovery of overpayments
• 9.4 Overpayments due to excess assets
• 9.5 Sharing of overpayments between spouses
• 9.6 Overpayment transfer
• 9.7 Controlling fraud

Section 10

• 10.1 Notice and internal review process
• 10.2 Appeal process
• 10.3 Recovery of interim assistance

Section 11

• 11.1 Delivery standards
• 11.2 Delegations of authority
• 11.3 Cost sharing
• 11.4 Statutory declarations and affidavits
• 11.5 Information sharing