backpay and amount questions.

[bluekrissyspikes]

my spouse has been on odsp for a couple years now, with me on his
check. i'm wondering if anyone knows the $$ difference we will get
now that i have been approved for odsp as well.
i'm also wondering what the limits are on backpay so i can calculate
what is owed to me. i applied way back in may 06.

[bluekrissyspikes]

does anyone know if i'll get backpay dating all the way back to 06?

[Hope]

I really hope so but you'll have to fight hard for it. Angela is the
expert in all things. She'll get back to you when she has time.

Wealth of knowledge that woman.

Melanie

[mking103]

It used to be they would pay retro only 4 months, even when ODSP was
the hold-up's fault. The OMBUDSMAN of Ontario stepped in, his report:
"Losing the Waiting Game", and forced ODSP to agree to pay retro to
the date of application.

mk

[bluekrissyspikes]

well that would be really cool, if it is that way. someone told me
they only go back 2 years or something.

[bluekrissyspikes]

so i got some backpay today. i got about $8000. i was expecting
more. we are on as a double disabled couple so that should be an
increase of $350 a month, right? (if not anyone know how much?) cause
if it is that much i should have gotten $17000. 8000 backpay would
mean that we'll only be getting $163/month more than we are now. i
could have sworn it was more than that. i don't mean to sound
greedy. i just want what is owed to me and i need to buy a lot of
things as i don't have enough beds for everyone, my furniture is all
ripped up, i only have 2 outfits for myself to wear, ect. and now i'm
afaid to spend the $$ i have left after i payed off some of my debts
cause there isn't much.

[abrowne]

BKS,
Backpay is established as follows.  I am trying to
give you a "simple answer" using round numbers,
and how the ODSP applies your retro on grant date.

If you are living on welfare and get $580 per month,
plus say $100 per month for special diet, and you
submitted a complete application on February 10, 2009,
and were rejected and again, on internal review, and
then you appealed to the SBT and were granted
in June 2010, ODSP calculates your back pay to
March 1, 2009.  Date of grant is when you are
physically transferred over from OW to ODSP,
not necessarily the date the SBT approved you.

10 months in 2009, and 5 in 2010, are considered
(until your grant date).  Your retro cheques are
calculated on a month by month basis from application,
and all income received from Ontario Works, is subtracted
from your approved retro for that month.   There is a $462
difference between what you got on OW in March 2009,
and what you would have received if you were on ODSP,
and the same the next month, and the next month after
that, etc.  
 
If your income stayed the same throughout your retro
period (no earnings, no difference in rent, and you pay
more than $464 a month in housing), then you multiply
the $462 X 15 months (does not include June 2010) is
$6,390 in retro pay.  Another $462 will be paid to you
at the end of June 2010, and at the end of July 2010,
you will get your full ODSP cheque.  If you had special
diet while on OW, it gets transferred over to ODSP, so
it just continues until your review date, if any.

Transferring from a single disabled couple to a double
disabled couple again depends on your income prior,
and all of that is taken from your retro, and what your
household would have received if you were on ODSP.
There is a double disability cap that deducts about $140
and change from couples, if shelter and basic needs
were added together otherwise.  The double disability
cap is one of the issues that we are attempting to
address in the ODSP Action Coalition.
Angela

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From: bluekrissyspikes <bluekris...@hotmail.com>
To: ODSP Fireside <odspfi...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tue, August 10, 2010 3:08:02 PM
Subject: [odspfireside: 30479 ] Re: backpay and amount questions.