PWD, ODSP, AUDHD, PTSD, MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY. Struggling to Survive, In Deep Poverty. Advocating for Disability Support.
Ontario, CA
Joined February 2022
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Disability support systems were designed decades ago, and often fail to account for current living costs, modern assistive technologies, or the true expenses associated with living with a disability.
🇨🇦 ODSP Starvation Program retweeted
WSIB is the Workplace Safety Insurance Board and it is where yoi go when you are injured at work.
For when you become disabled.
The payments are small & fully deducted from ODSP, dollar for dollar.
But as bad as it is, taking parts of it away will cause more chaos.
WSIB cuts 466 jobs across Ontario in 'difficult business decision' cp24.com/politics/queens-par…
🇨🇦 ODSP Starvation Program retweeted
THIS ⬇️ don't hand 1.5 million disabled Canadians CRUMBS and pat yourselves on the back like you're heros! #NoMorePovertyPWD (Persons With Disabilities) 🇨🇦
Canadian Premiers- fix your systems.
@liberal_party @PattyHajdu & @MarkJCarne - Poverty Level financial support NOW!
Living on ODSP? It's no secret the shelter allowance doesn't match real rent prices in many areas. We need policies that truly reflect the cost of living so that everyone can have a secure place to call home.
🇨🇦 ODSP Starvation Program retweeted
Calling out politicians for spending gov funds on themselves but not pointing out that they are actively starving disabled people and edging them toward homelessness whilst the politicians live in luxury.
Rate the rates!
ODSP & OW are legislated deep poverty. Destitution!
🇨🇦 ODSP Starvation Program retweeted
We have the means to provide everyone with housing, healthcare, childcare and basic income.
Suffering is a policy choice.
Those in power would rather hoard the wealth than see everyone equally provided for.
If everyone had their basic needs met, the world would change.
🇨🇦 ODSP Starvation Program retweeted
How does a disabled adult get $2450.40 max per year via the federal CDB – but a child gets $8,157 max per year via the federal CCB?
A child is worth 3X that of a disabled adult??
Canada has severely underfunded disability to the point of destitution, then offers MAID as an out.
The Canada Child Benefit helps 6 million children across Canada — and on Monday, it’s going up.
That means families will get up to $8,157 a year per child to help with groceries, clothing, child care. Money where it matters most.
ALT Le premier ministre Carney rencontre des familles dans une garderie de London, en Ontario.
🇨🇦 ODSP Starvation Program retweeted
Politicians will get a hefty salary with benefits.
Then on top of that allowances for food, travel and housing.
(The allowance for housing in Ontario alone is $30k/year)
And they have the audacity to say that vulnerable disabled people don't deserve to meet the poverty line.
🇨🇦 ODSP Starvation Program retweeted
"The Canada Disability Benefit falls short.
The Canada Disability Benefit was meant to reduce poverty. Instead, its forces many people with disabilities to make harmful tradeoffs."
Read the full Op-Ed here: canadianaffairs.news/2026/07…
🇨🇦 ODSP Starvation Program retweeted
🇨🇦 ODSP Starvation Program retweeted
Four dollars and twenty cents *maximum* per month.
$4.20
That is what the Canadian federal government boasts about increasing the woefully inadequate Canada Disability Benefit by.
They are advertising it as a positive, when this is a mockery of what the UN CRPD called for.
Beginning July 2026, Canada Disability Benefit recipients could receive up to $2,450 per year, an increase of approximately 2% from last year to help keep up with rising costs.
Learn more 👇
Canada.ca/disability-benefit
ALT Maximum Canada Disability Benefit payments are increasing. Multiple arrows pointing up.
🇨🇦 ODSP Starvation Program retweeted
"The question is not whether she has the right to choose death. The question, to me, is whether she was given enough reasons, resources & support to choose life."
Disabled Canadians are not given support to live. This is a Hobson's choice; suffer or die
montrealgazette.com/opinion/…
🇨🇦 ODSP Starvation Program retweeted
"It'll lift Disabled Canadians OUT of poverty"
For 1299 days they said that.
Sold it to #Cdnpoli public on that basis.
To #CdnMedia & @UNHumanRights on that basis.
#CanadaDisabilityBenefit: 2100 days of broken promises, media silence & death.
@CTVNews @CBCNews @CityNewsTO.
ALT Canada Disability Benefit 2100 Days of broken promises. Horizontal graph / one bar, bar chart. far left of graph "No income" far right of graph "poverty line" within the graph, blue is used to represent disabled social assistance which takes up about 45% of the graph. Yellow represents the actual CDB to come which is roughly 10% of the graph. Red consumes roughly 45% of the graph on the right. Written through the blue "National average income on Disability social assistance 50 - 55% below poverty" written through the yellow "What they didn't cut" written through the red "This is how much the Liberal Party DID cut in 2024 after promising for four years to lift the Disabled out of poverty" under this graph is a second, smaller one which includes this graph, but then shows it in context compared to the distance to "lower middle class" and "middle class" actual. written bottom "Unless you live in Alberta. Because Danielle Smith is a heartless bitch who promised to steal it"
🇨🇦 ODSP Starvation Program retweeted
If you have a disability & can't participate in the workforce you will not be provided any extra funding to supplement the cost of living. You can expect starvation, homelessness & suffering from legislated abject poverty. If you can't work the government doesn't care if you live
🇨🇦 ODSP Starvation Program retweeted
"Designed to fail: How Ontario’s income security policies create and perpetuate homelessness
Key findings
•As of July 2025, more than 30,000 people on Ontario Works (OW) and the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) were experiencing homelessness – an increase of 72 per cent since July 2019.
•Homelessness among those who have relied on OW for more than one year surged by 136 per cent.
•Seventy per cent of unhoused recipients are single adults – the group receiving the lowest benefits.
A system designed to fail
The policy brief highlights how current provincial rules act as a “preventable policy failure”:
•Paltry rates vs. rising rents: OW rates for a single adult have been frozen at $733/month, even as the average cost to rent a single room in Ontario climbed to $756/month between 2019 and 2025 – making even the cheapest housing option out of reach.
•Punitive shelter benefit rules: The system is split into basic needs and shelter benefits; however, if a person cannot prove housing costs, they receive zero dollars for shelter, pushing the unhoused even deeper into poverty.
•Rules that force couples apart: Social assistance rules penalize family formation by reducing benefits when couples move in together. Reforming this could free up an estimated 10,000 low-income rental units."
maytree.com/publications/des…
#onpoli #odsp #ow
ALT Screenshot of the article linked in post, includes body text copied and pasted.
🇨🇦 ODSP Starvation Program retweeted
Conservatives make this point that they spent more than $800 per month on groceries.
In comparison, After rent is paid disabled people nationwide are lucky if we have a hundred dollars left – and then there are utilities, medication, etc.
$800/month for groceries is a dream.
🇨🇦 ODSP Starvation Program retweeted
Can't help but feel worthless, the agoraphobia and bulimia brought on by steady and constant trauma makes my anxiety unstoppable. I'm surrounded by garbage in a sweat stained bed, my room is already getting hot and I'm dreading any future. My advocacy is one of the few things giving me purpose, trying to stop the cycle so people don't live like I did, on the streets selling my body as a teenager, no family, no stability, no treatments. In and out of shelters, sleeping under the dvp bridges, and weeks in mental hospitals when it all got to be too much. But it's been too much for anyone to handle for so long. We just wanted a chance, soemwhere to recover and be safe. Instead we are vilified and chastised for being lazy moochers. Tell you what, surviving what I've been through, there's nothing lazy about it.
🇨🇦 ODSP Starvation Program retweeted
Canada has led globally on advancing inclusion and accessibility to MAID for disabled people forced into poverty and/or unable to access needed supports.
This evening, I delivered Canada’s address to the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Canada has led globally on advancing inclusion and accessibility and we are fully committed to continuing this work. Because inclusion is not a privilege, it’s an expectation that every Canadian should be able to count on.
🇨🇦 ODSP Starvation Program retweeted
Please please please, nothing in at all Ina week.
E-transfer [email protected]
I'm not gonna survive without help.
#mutualaid #donate #help
ALT Golden field with green coniferous etc