Action Alert: Double ODSP rates to lift people out of poverty

Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) rates have been frozen since 2018. People with disabilities who rely on ODSP — and their families — are falling deeper into poverty as we experience the steepest inflation in decades.

Join us! Call on Premier Ford to double ODSP rates. 

Today’s ODSP rate for singles — only $1,169 per month — is approximately 50 per cent below the poverty line and almost entirely swallowed up by the average rate for a bachelor apartment in Ontario ($1,106). In Toronto, the average rent for a bachelor apartment — $1,217 — is almost $50 more than the ODSP rate for a single recipient.

Ontario’s ODSP rates have lost nearly 33 per cent of their purchasing value over the last three decades, and over 10 per cent of their value since they were frozen in 2018.

Current ODSP rates force people with disabilities into precarious housing or homelessness, malnutrition, poor health and desperation. This is profoundly cruel in a province as rich as Ontario. It must change, immediately.

Join us! Let Premier Ford know that ODSP rates must double to ensure that no one in Ontario with a disability is forced to live in poverty.

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Hon. Doug Ford
Premier of Ontario
Hon. Peter Bethlenfalvy
minister of finance, progressive conservative party of Ontario
Hon. Sylvia Jones
Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and MPP for Dufferin—Caledon
Peter Tabuns
NDP Critic, Climate Action , MPP
Catherine Fife
NDP finance and treasury board critic, MPP
Monique Taylor
NDP critic for children, community and social services, MPP
France Gélinas
MPP and NDP health critic
Lise Vaugeois
NDP critic for seniors, persons living with disabilities and accessibility
John Fraser
Interim Party Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party and MPP for Ottawa South
Mike Schreiner
Leader of the Green Party of Ontario and MPP for Guelph
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