Or you can complete and submit your application through a single online form in French only. This tool allows you to assess whether you might be eligible for social assistance. If your application is rejected, you can contest the decision. False declarations can have serious consequences. If you disagree with a decision cancelling or reducing your benefits, you can contest the decision. This is not a legal opinion nor legal advice. To find out the specific rules for your situation, consult a lawyer or notary.
The Law by Topic. Once you start receiving social assistance, you can have slightly more in savings and property. Having a Spouse Can Affect Your Eligibility or Your Benefits Having a spouse could have an impact on your eligibility for social assistance or the amount of benefits you may be granted.
If no additional information is required, the caseworker will let you know if you are financially eligible for ODSP within 15 business days. If you are a member of a prescribed class , you do not have to complete this step.
This package must be completed by your doctor or another health care provider , and mailed to the Disability Adjudication Unit using the addressed envelope included with the package. Your health care provider may also submit additional information for example, clinical notes, hospital reports, psychological or functional assessments to help describe your medical condition and how it affects you.
Specialized ODSP staff including doctors, nurses or occupational therapists review your completed disability determination package to determine if you are medically eligible for ODSP. You will receive a letter from the Disability Adjudication Unit within 90 business days to let you know if your disability qualified. If you are eligible, the caseworker will schedule a meeting with you to create a plan for how to best help you and let you know when you can expect your first payment.
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To have a better experience, you need to: Go to your browser's settings Enable JavaScript. Declines in immigrant use of benefits are evident nationwide, but they are especially pronounced among the states that offer the least generous safety nets such as Texas and Florida.
As a group, the thirty least generous states experienced rapid growth in their immigrant populations between and , with the number of foreign born families with children rising by 31 percent — more than four times the rate of the remaining twenty states. TANF participation among low-income LPR families with children dropped 73 percent in the least generous states between and as compared with 45 percent among the more generous states.
Taken together, these migration and policy trends cast doubt on the welfare magnet theory, which holds that immigrants are drawn to places with generous welfare benefits. These trends also raise the concern that low-income LPR families will find themselves outside increasingly localized safety nets as the labor market tightens. How do we explain these declines in benefit use among non-citizens?
Increased naturalizations could reduce the number of non-citizens receiving benefits if the immigrants who become citizens do so to continue receiving welfare benefits. Between and , the number of non-citizen families that naturalized did increase rapidly. These increases were the product of a number of demographic and policy shifts that include, but go beyond, welfare reform. For example, increased naturalizations also resulted from the fact that 2.
This rise in the number of naturalizations, however, can account for only a small proportion of the drop in benefit receipt by non-citizens.
While the number of families containing a naturalized citizen grew by 1. At the same time, the number of LPR families on welfare dropped by , Thus, increased naturalizations fall well short of offsetting decreases in benefit use among non-citizens.
If naturalizations account for only a fraction of the decline in LPR use of welfare, perhaps increased income? However, Urban Institute analyses reveal that only about one-quarter of the reduction in TANF and food stamp participation rates for both citizens and LPR families is explained by changes in income. Thus, rising incomes also explain only a fraction of the decline in welfare use.
They find that legal immigrants make up a significant share of the remaining caseload in several major cities and that, as compared with native American TANF recipients, immigrants in these cities face a number of barriers to entering the workforce, including limited English proficiency, less education, and less recent work experience than native workers.
The researchers also found that the programs needed to help potential non-citizen workers overcome these barriers were often not available.
There have also been declines in the use of Medicaid among legal, working-age adult immigrants, but not among poor non-citizen families with children or children themselves. Increased naturalization rates and higher incomes contributed to the declines in benefit receipt by non-citizens, but they fall well short of accounting for the entire decline. We are left to conclude that the benefit cuts of directly contributed to the decline in welfare use by non-citizens.
Whatever the cause, there is some evidence that declining welfare use by non-citizen families may be associated with increased hardship. Randy Capps at the Urban Institute found that roughly one half of all immigrant families with children had incomes below percent of poverty and that the children of immigrants were more likely than the children of natives to have no health insurance 22 versus 10 percent and to have some difficulty getting enough food to eat 37 versus 27 percent.
Similarly, George Borjas of Harvard has produced strong evidence that the exclusion of immigrants from food stamps is leading to rising food insecurity among non-citizen households.
The reauthorization debate will feature proposals by both the Bush administration and by members of Congress to expand welfare benefits for non-citizens. The most important proposals will be those that expand benefits for non-citizens who arrived after because the distinction between pre and post entrants constitutes something like a line in the sand for policymakers.
Although there have already been several changes in the reforms, no legislation has been enacted that moved benefits for non-citizens across the line of demarcation. Given what is known about human longevity, if benefits are not extended to post entrants, there will eventually be very few non-citizens receiving welfare benefits. In penetrating the line in the sand, it is unlikely that there will be serious attention to proposals that attempt a complete restoration of benefits for non-citizens.
Under congressional budget rules, increased spending must be offset either by equivalent cuts in other programs or by tax increases, neither of which is feasible in this case. Thus, proposals are likely to be more modest than complete restoration of benefits. For every dollar of non-exempt income a household has, social assistance payments are typically reduced by a dollar. Some earnings from employment are also exempt from the income test.
This allows people receiving social assistance to earn a certain amount of money without impacting their benefits. Each social assistance program has its own way of calculating earnings exemptions, but there are generally three approaches:.
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