Kingston Community Legal Clinic

Re-posted from ON THE RADAR, a publication of Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO)

Starting July 1, 2023, Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) rates increased by 6.5% and will be adjusted yearly based on inflation. And the federal government sent out a Grocery Rebate on July 5 with people’s GST/HST tax credit.

While these changes are aimed at helping people with the increased cost of living, they fall short of what advocates have been asking for.

The federal government has also just passed the Canada Disability Benefit Act, which creates a new benefit for working-age people with disabilities. Over the next year, the government will be working out details like who’ll be eligible and how much the benefit will be.

Find out more in this month’s On The Radar.

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