RE: [odspfireside: 48292 ] Renting a room to a student

[VICKY SWERBRICK]

yes it would be taken off you can only make 200.00 and something a month and they wont take it off 
 

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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 13:57:12 -0700
From: wjp...@gmail.com
To: odspfi...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [odspfireside: 48292 ] Renting a room to a student

If I charge a student $300.00 to rent a room does that get taken off my cheque, thank you.
I tried looking it up on the internet and have not been able to reach my worker,

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[abrowne]

Hi,

How about giving people on ODSP the right to rent a room or even another

rental unit (e.g. the basement unit of a house they own) for the purposes of

getting extra income and being allowed to deduct property taxes, utilities,

repair bills etc. before they dig their grimy hands into it.  As usual, this is

another area where some people who cannot work might be able to receive

extra money, but ODSP rules quash this one too.

Angela

From: nvp <vand...@lao.on.ca>
To: odspfi...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 4:54:24 PM
Subject: Re: [odspfireside: 48295 ] Renting a room to a student

Rental income is handled differently by ODSP than earned income from a job.  The regulation says that they will subtract 60% of rental income from your ODSP.  That means that of the $300 your tenant pays you in rent, ODSP will subtract $180 (so you only end up with an extra $120 per month).  If you provide meals to the lodger along with the room, then they only subtract 40% from your ODSP. 

One of the many things in the ODSP rules that are unfair.  The Commission for the Review of Social Assistance said they would like to change this rule and just give a flat rate, regardless of things like rental and boarder income.

[Bill Higgs]

Angela, how right you are I have a tenant and after ODSP claws back I get a whole 80 bucks/month  for having a tenannt/roomate. If I took aoff the extra utilities etc etc, I am probably losing money.

This whole ODSP does not have to follow standard accounting practices like Revenue Canada is absolute B.S.

 

Bill

 

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