SOCIAL JUSTICE TORONTO-BASED PROJECT
ABOUT ODSP AND OW
August 2019

what will happen to current ODSP recipients when the definition of disability is changed?

what definition will be used when they are medically reviewed?

Minister MacLeod promised “grand-fathering”/grand-parenting” in November 2019, but contact with the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services, by doctors and journalists could not confirm this with precision, which is very unfair.

- basically there 3 possibilities:

“grand-fathering of the people”: 
current recipients stay on ODSP but when they get a medical review, they are submitted to the new definition and might be excluded

“grand-fathering of the people AND the rule”:
current recipients stay on ODSP AND when they get a medical review, they are submitted to the old definition, i.e. to the definition that has been applied to them up until now

“grand-fathering of the rule only”