February 5, 2018 After yet again no service available, I’m in need of faxing the information recently received by me by mail…to the legal clinic regarding on going issues with ODSP these issues affect my life in numerous ways, the mental anguish of knowing the primary issues are without resolve with complying issues adding to the complexity of what boils down to a broke system and service.
After over a year of issues ranging from - being threatened with jail time for fraud – tormented by extensive lists of required information- fulfilling requests only to be suspended- financial peril due to extended suspension, 4 months of no assistance, with all being unfounded.-deducted for Jordan( my eldest daughter of 6 children), turning 18 in January yet didn’t graduate til June, and told they did me a favour by not charging me $100 a month on top of it, so another child born in December wouldn’t be subject to such deductions? This is Discrimination. -My 16-yr. old after my income suspension, attained PT employment to assist with her needs that I was unable to due to income suspension. Within 2 weeks injured herself @work and received WSIB- This was then deducted off my cheque…should my 16yr old pay our rent? Buy groceries? If I borrow the money for rent from her, I am bound to claim it and am deducted for it again….? What kind of logic is this? An already raised poverty- stricken child penalized for a work injury now affecting her home and siblings? This is Emotional & Mental abuse!
I am tormented with the thought of being chastised for opting to raise my children, my children penalized for trying to play a productive roll in society, in a foster system this same child would suffer no consequence for the same action. Meaning if my daughter worked while in care no deductions would be made to her cost of living, housing or basic needs. Yet ODSP deducts any income in "the benefit unit” and justified under policy. Regardless of her age or academic status. I have a mental illness/ disability, my children are being discriminated against because I am on ODSP, the rights of my children are compromised when the same government treats them differently because of my choice to raise them. As un-rational as it would seem, would my child be better in a foster care system where they are financially capable of housing and providing basic needs, among clothing, activities, and require standards set out by the same government one child in care is approx. $6000.00 a month that works out to about 200.00 a day. For 4 children and myself, I received $1682.00 after rent $1200…$400.00 for the month. I feel as thou my children are suffering because of my mental illness. The Emotional toil of tossing around such ideas and realizing the definitive outcome of my life on ODSP is no matter how hard I work, how good of a mother I try to be, how solid my morals are, how much I give, no matter how much I try to get 'Ahead’, there is no promotion, no bonus, no advancement. ODSP will continue to calculate deductions from the same government in my name, my children, threaten fraud, challenge my existence, probe my needs.
The treatment I received from ODSP …the condescending language, and attitude, to being manipulated into withdraw, Phone calls challenging my character, morals, calling me a liar, trying to prove some action of fraudulence, dismissing my concerns and terminating conversations, after attending legal clinic MP and ombudsman over the past year numerous times, I have a new projected date of Aug22-2018. SBT. It’s daunting to think half a year from now…how many more complying issues will have transpired, how many more things will I be forced to contend with…off the top Jaden will be 18 in March 10-2018…this won’t sit well with ODSP I’ve already been told that she will have to apply to welfare? And pay me rent which is then deducted from me…Jaden is victim to sexual assault and lost time in completing her high school which she is now enrolled in fulltime…again this child in a foster care environment would be covered if attending school fulltime up to the age of 21? But because I choose to raise her she has no leg up. What a shame. Jaden’s want to finish high school and get a part-time job, this should excite me as her mother, unfortunately, all I for see is deductions to what is already a financially strained environment.
Which leads me to my son Javan, who is in cadets, he is 13, this summer he will attend cadets camp in which they are awarded earnings for involvement, I’m horrified to think that all my children’s positive on goings, are going to have a negative impact on our household in the financial regard. This is hopeless! Do I hinder the productive involvement in society for fear of the negative implications to my financial stability in providing for the exact children I’m being deducted for? I have contacted multiple Mental Health Advocacies However my case is said by ODSP to be extraordinary, due to not having any allowances or previous cases and gives way to policy change. This is good news. however, My situation is Now! This doesn’t account for the last year of my life being stretched to every possible limit. Contemplating giving up my children, loosing any balance of payments, falling behind on everything, jeopardizing my rental unit for non-payment. Loosing 20lbs from stress caused by income suspension and lack of ability to provide for my children thus recanting the contemplation of giving my children up.
The strains placed on me has a direct impact on my extended relationships with people, causes emotional withdraw, heighten anxiety, panic attacks. These are exaggerated by having to explain my situation and the issues I’m facing, with more then a few different people on more then one occasion, leaving me emotionally exhausted, fragile and feeling violated by the extraction of information. I’d like to sue ODSP for Emotional distress, Mental anguish, Mental abuse. Under the definition of each available. As well as discrimination against being Mentally disabled. Tort law. The reasons above and beyond add to the fact that these and other issues are going to arise in the next few months at least. I can not put myself in a situation that I know is essentially endless and detrimental to my well being over an extended length of time. This is the definition of insanity.
The last year has pushed my mental health to the lowest depths, I am inclined to protect myself from being subject to again. I qualify and am eligible, why then am I under such microscopic scrutiny. For something I’ve already proven? Anyone looking for fraud thru a bias lens will see what they search regardless of validity. If anyone reading this can help me! I would be grateful. Sincerely emotionally exhausted Jessica D
Ontario Disability Support Program Reviews
February 5, 2018 After yet again no service available, I’m in need of faxing the information recently received by me by mail…to the legal clinic regarding on going issues with ODSP these issues affect my life in numerous ways, the mental anguish of knowing the primary issues are without resolve with complying issues adding to the complexity of what boils down to a broke system and service.
After over a year of issues ranging from - being threatened with jail time for fraud – tormented by extensive lists of required information- fulfilling requests only to be suspended- financial peril due to extended suspension, 4 months of no assistance, with all being unfounded.-deducted for Jordan( my eldest daughter of 6 children), turning 18 in January yet didn’t graduate til June, and told they did me a favour by not charging me $100 a month on top of it, so another child born in December wouldn’t be subject to such deductions? This is Discrimination. -My 16-yr. old after my income suspension, attained PT employment to assist with her needs that I was unable to due to income suspension. Within 2 weeks injured herself @work and received WSIB- This was then deducted off my cheque…should my 16yr old pay our rent? Buy groceries? If I borrow the money for rent from her, I am bound to claim it and am deducted for it again….? What kind of logic is this? An already raised poverty- stricken child penalized for a work injury now affecting her home and siblings? This is Emotional & Mental abuse!
I am tormented with the thought of being chastised for opting to raise my children, my children penalized for trying to play a productive roll in society, in a foster system this same child would suffer no consequence for the same action. Meaning if my daughter worked while in care no deductions would be made to her cost of living, housing or basic needs. Yet ODSP deducts any income in "the benefit unit” and justified under policy. Regardless of her age or academic status. I have a mental illness/ disability, my children are being discriminated against because I am on ODSP, the rights of my children are compromised when the same government treats them differently because of my choice to raise them. As un-rational as it would seem, would my child be better in a foster care system where they are financially capable of housing and providing basic needs, among clothing, activities, and require standards set out by the same government one child in care is approx. $6000.00 a month that works out to about 200.00 a day. For 4 children and myself, I received $1682.00 after rent $1200…$400.00 for the month. I feel as thou my children are suffering because of my mental illness. The Emotional toil of tossing around such ideas and realizing the definitive outcome of my life on ODSP is no matter how hard I work, how good of a mother I try to be, how solid my morals are, how much I give, no matter how much I try to get 'Ahead’, there is no promotion, no bonus, no advancement. ODSP will continue to calculate deductions from the same government in my name, my children, threaten fraud, challenge my existence, probe my needs.
The treatment I received from ODSP …the condescending language, and attitude, to being manipulated into withdraw, Phone calls challenging my character, morals, calling me a liar, trying to prove some action of fraudulence, dismissing my concerns and terminating conversations, after attending legal clinic MP and ombudsman over the past year numerous times, I have a new projected date of Aug22-2018. SBT. It’s daunting to think half a year from now…how many more complying issues will have transpired, how many more things will I be forced to contend with…off the top Jaden will be 18 in March 10-2018…this won’t sit well with ODSP I’ve already been told that she will have to apply to welfare? And pay me rent which is then deducted from me…Jaden is victim to sexual assault and lost time in completing her high school which she is now enrolled in fulltime…again this child in a foster care environment would be covered if attending school fulltime up to the age of 21? But because I choose to raise her she has no leg up. What a shame. Jaden’s want to finish high school and get a part-time job, this should excite me as her mother, unfortunately, all I for see is deductions to what is already a financially strained environment.
Which leads me to my son Javan, who is in cadets, he is 13, this summer he will attend cadets camp in which they are awarded earnings for involvement, I’m horrified to think that all my children’s positive on goings, are going to have a negative impact on our household in the financial regard. This is hopeless! Do I hinder the productive involvement in society for fear of the negative implications to my financial stability in providing for the exact children I’m being deducted for? I have contacted multiple Mental Health Advocacies However my case is said by ODSP to be extraordinary, due to not having any allowances or previous cases and gives way to policy change. This is good news. however, My situation is Now! This doesn’t account for the last year of my life being stretched to every possible limit. Contemplating giving up my children, loosing any balance of payments, falling behind on everything, jeopardizing my rental unit for non-payment. Loosing 20lbs from stress caused by income suspension and lack of ability to provide for my children thus recanting the contemplation of giving my children up.
The strains placed on me has a direct impact on my extended relationships with people, causes emotional withdraw, heighten anxiety, panic attacks. These are exaggerated by having to explain my situation and the issues I’m facing, with more then a few different people on more then one occasion, leaving me emotionally exhausted, fragile and feeling violated by the extraction of information. I’d like to sue ODSP for Emotional distress, Mental anguish, Mental abuse. Under the definition of each available. As well as discrimination against being Mentally disabled. Tort law. The reasons above and beyond add to the fact that these and other issues are going to arise in the next few months at least. I can not put myself in a situation that I know is essentially endless and detrimental to my well being over an extended length of time. This is the definition of insanity.
The last year has pushed my mental health to the lowest depths, I am inclined to protect myself from being subject to again. I qualify and am eligible, why then am I under such microscopic scrutiny. For something I’ve already proven? Anyone looking for fraud thru a bias lens will see what they search regardless of validity. If anyone reading this can help me! I would be grateful. Sincerely emotionally exhausted Jessica D