Only 1% on assistance move to employment

By MPP Toby Barrett

To The Haldimand Press

At a cost of $10 billion a year, Ontario supports 600,000 people on Ontario Works (OW) and the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP). However, Ontario’s Auditor General recently highlighted the current system has not been working well for social assistance recipients. Only 1% were finding employment every month, and that was before the pandemic.