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The 2018 Ontario budget delivered by the recently ousted Liberal government listed a whole host of changes to the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) that were meant to improve the lives of Ontarians with disabilities and their families.  Most of those changes...

The Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) provides a monthly income as well as health benefits to people with disabilities.  But it takes more than having a disability to qualify.  Your financial status is also considered. Fundamentally, ODSP is for people with...

Inheriting money can be a mixed blessing, even for those on ODSP. Your mother passes away and, to add to the grief and stress, you find out she left you $95,000 in an inheritance.  If you are receiving benefits from the Ontario Disability Support Program, you know you...

When it really comes down to it, your financial health depends on you.  The decisions you make and the habits you sustain will make you or break you more than any other factor.  Even for parents of children with disabilities. Yes, there are other factors that can pull...

We don’t always do what we think we should do. To be an organ donor in Canada, you have to register (“opt-in”), otherwise your organs will not be harvested to save another life. The participation rate is low in our country and yet it has been reported that many...

Life is more complicated when you have a disability. Not simply because of the disability, but because our society is not built for people with disabilities. If it were, then half of all people with disabilities would not be unemployed, special education wouldn’t be...