An attorney in Ontario can now expect to hear more frequently from an adult with a disability. Today, a disabled resident of Ontario must deal with the fact that he or she will be receiving a decreased amount of government support. In other words, such residents must take the time to seek out a new source of funding.
What group of men and women knows a good deal about the money available to someone with a disabling condition? That group would include all the men and women that have pursued a career in the legal profession. Only personal injury lawyers in Trenton stand ready to provide some guidance, regarding how to deal with the changes to Ontario’s Welfare Program.
What is the nature of those changes?
The provincial government has decreased the number of planned increases in support rates. The same government has ordered the cancellation of any plan to increase Ontario’s Disability Support Program to a level that is 30% greater than the previous program. That change demands plans for an increase of no more than 1.5%.
What is the significance of those changes?
If there will be less support for disabled adults, then those same adults will need to seek out alternate sources of funds. Lawyers can help with locating such funds.
Government’s programs reflect the aspirations of certain government officials. Those same officials want to get more people off of the government’s programs, and joining the men and women that makeup Ontario’s workforce. The details, regarding how that change will be encouraged have yet to be made clear.
Questions that lawyers might ask, after learning about the officials’ aspirations:
Will there be more training programs, so that a disabled person can make use of an opportunity to learn a new skill?
If disabled persons must undergo treatment, in order to join the workforce, how will their adherence to a treatment program get monitored?
Some plans that need to be clarified:
Governmental officials intend to cancel expensive programs, specifically those that have not been proven effective. Those intentions appear to have motivated creation of other plans, which could cause lawyers to ponder on the possibilities.
A pair of questions that emerge from limited information on the less-than-clear plans:
What group will gather the statistics, regarding the expense of any one program, and the extent to which it has been proven effective? Who will select the members of that particular group?
How can lawyers work to identify any program that might get cancelled? Disabled clients would have good reason for seeking such information. Those currently dependent on such a program would want to look for an alternative source of money, a source other than the government.