ODSP Employment Support
My meeting was Thursday, so sorry that I didn’t blog about this sooner. I wanted to take a good look at the information packets before I talked about it.
Now, I won’t bore with too many details, (though feel free to comment and ask questions), but the meeting was mainly to get information from me on what I planned to do, and explain how ODSP can help and how running a business will effect my Income Support payments. (In general, they deduct half of what I make, minus approved expenses, from my monthly cheque. The example in the info packet I was given was someone who made $350/month from her business, and got deducted $75/month from her cheque. There’s also a $100/month bonus if you make a positive net income.)
My next step is to review the two service providers they gave me to decide which I want to work with. I’m supposed to call or email both but I’ve already almost made up my mind just by looking at their web sites. One is dedicated to ODSP clients, the other just offers disability employment supports as one very small fraction of their overall business (which serves 160000 clients a year, most of whom would be paying clients). Personally, I’d rather deal with the one who specializes in dealing with those like me, and have far fewer clients to deal with so they can put more of their time and effort into helping me. There’s other factors too, but that’s mainly what it comes down to. Still, I’ll email both and see what they have to say.
