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Child Support Payments to be Exempt from Social Assistance Calculations
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Beginning in 2017, single-parent families no longer need to include child support payments from your social assistance benefit calculations. You also do not need to pursue child support as a requirement to be eligible for social assistance.
The exemption will begin on January 1, 2017 in the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) and on February 1, 2017 in Ontario Works.
Currently, child support payments are treated as income and are deducted dollar-by-dollar from social assistance calculations. Now that single-parents' income will be evaluated without child support, you will be able to receive more money from the government.
You can find out more information on this topic on Settlement.Org's Financial Assistance section.