In keeping with the Bright Futures Ability Network and Special Needs Planning Group\u2019s desire to help our friends and clients keep up to date with supports available to them, we are issuing this special update. There have been two significant announcements that may impact people with disabilities and their families.<\/p>\n
The first announcement<\/strong> relates to how the Ontario Disability Support Program deals with the Federal Government\u2019s CERB payments. The Federal Government is providing $2000 per month to eligible people who have lost their employment due to the COVID-19 crisis. If an eligible person is also receiving ODSP benefits then the $2000 CERB payment will be treated as being employment income. This means that the first $200 will not impact the ODSP but 50% of the excess will be deducted from the benefit amount. If their benefit is reduced to $0.00, they will NOT lose their drug and dental benefits. This is good news for people who have lost their employment but don\u2019t forget that the $2000 is considered to be taxable income and there may be tax implications in the future.<\/p>\n The second announcement<\/strong> relates to Passport and Special Services at Home (SSAH) Funding. The rules relating to eligible expenses are temporarily in both programs is being expanded.<\/p>\n Full details of these changes can be found on at the following link:<\/p>\n Passport Funding Link<\/a> The changes for both programs can be summarized to include the following expenditures as now being eligible for funding:<\/p>\n Please review the details found on the links above before assuming that your expenditures will qualify for Passport or SSAH reimbursement.<\/p>\n All other inadmissible expenditures outlined in the program outlines remain in effect.<\/p>\n Payments in Advance:<\/p>\n To make it easier for people who receive this funding to take advantage of these changes, the Government will be giving 25 per cent of the funding for this year in advance. You should save all receipts, invoices and supporting documents with proof of payment for these expenses. In response to the challenges arising from the COVID-19 outbreak, they are also waiving the deadline to file your claims<\/p>\n For information or comments, Contact: Graeme Treeby at: (905) 640-8285<\/p>\n Or<\/p>\n graemetreeby@sympatico.ca<\/a> ODSP, Passport and SSAH Funding Enhancements: In keeping with the Bright Futures Ability Network and Special Needs Planning Group\u2019s desire to help our friends and clients keep up to date with supports available to them, we are issuing this special update. There have been two significant announcements that may impact people with disabilities and their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightfuturesplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightfuturesplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightfuturesplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightfuturesplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightfuturesplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brightfuturesplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/brightfuturesplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightfuturesplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightfuturesplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightfuturesplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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