Henson Trust

Understanding ODSP is a job in itself.  People do not know where to start. It’s a daunting task, trying to figure out which aspects to focus on.  There are well over a 100 policies providing hundreds of pages of reading.  Sound like fun?  You can access them on-line,...

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...

“What will happen to my child after I am gone?”  This has to be one of the biggest questions parents of children with special needs have. When you have an adult son or daughter who is not able to live a fully independent life, figuring out the answers to this very...

Dear ODSP Caseworker I have met only a few of you and yet I think about you often. I wanted to write this letter to you to ask a favour. Asking you for a favour at this time might seem a bit much.  A bit presumptuous.  You are dealing with  SAMS, a new software system...

Kelly is on ODSP.  She recently received $80,000 in an inheritance from her mother’s estate.  This money threatened her ODSP because single people with no dependents are not allowed more than $40,000 in assets.  She thought she would lose her ODSP.  Her ODSP...