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What Stops Us From Working?

As a society, we would all benefit from the increased employment of Ontario Disability Service Program recipients. It would boost consumer spending and taxes paid, and decrease pressure on the health and social assistance systems. This report describes how ODSP currently treats outside income, then uses the real life stories of ODSP recipients to illustrate the problems caused by current policy. We analyze these problems and detail our proposed reforms to help “make work pay.”