'Nobody has a good life on Ontario Works. Period,' a former caseworker says
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a new Village Media website devoted exclusively to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park"I always say, if someone's on ODSP, I'll support them for life," Ford said last Monday at the Empire Club of Canada in Toronto, referring to the Ontario Disability Support Program. "What drives me crazy is people on Ontario Works — probably three, 400,000 — that are healthy.
One former caseworker of 11 years, and two people who have been through OW, described an "incredibly invasive" program that watches your every move — financially, professionally, and even romantically. "We went into great detail about child support, spousal support. 'Who's the father of your children? Where are they living right now? When was the last time you had contact with them? How much have they paid you? Why don't they pay you? Do they work? Where do they work? Oh, by the way, here's a document that you have to find him and give to him,'" she said.Two people who have been on OW compared it to a helicopter parent checking up on everything you do.
The caseworker said she was responsible for 150 "benefit units," which could each be a family or an individual. Every year, she said she had enough time to "really focus" on just one or two.Fisk said his assistance didn't cover the needles he needed for B12 shots — only the medicine. When a pharmacy quoted him $207 for a box of needles, his ODSP worker tried to pay for it by marking it as insulin. "But it got caught," Fisk said.
The case worker noted ODSP rates only recently caught up to where they were in the 1990s, before the Mike Harris government's cuts."Ontario deserves better than a Premier who looks down at those doing everything they can to try and make ends meet — something increasingly difficult with the low rates of OW & ODSP," Leader Marit Stiles said.
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