Welfare applicants no longer required to cash RESPs.TORONTO -- The Ontario government is ending a rule that requires social assistance applicants to liquidate their registered education savings plans. Community and Social Services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales Minister Sandra Pupatello Sandra Pupatello (born October 6, 1962) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She has served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1995 as a member of the Ontario Liberal Party, and is currently the Minister of Economic Development and Trade and Minister Responsible for called it a "a dumb rule". The change is expected to be effective before the end or the year. The Income Security Advocy Centre praised the government's decision for its action. Centre lawyers are in the process of filing an appeal with Divisional Court in an attempt to overturn a decision by the Social Benefits Tribunal that denied an application by Cristita Ostique of Scarborough for social assistance because her daughter Cristal has an RESP RESP Response RESP Registered Education Savings Plan (Canada) Resp Responsibility Resp Respektive (Sweden: respectively) Resp Respiration RESP Respironics, Inc. . If cashed out now, the RESP would be worth about $14,000. Liberal MPP (Massively Parallel Processing or Massively Parallel Processor) A multiprocessing architecture that uses up to thousands of processors. Some might contend that a computer system with 64 or more CPUs is a massively parallel processor. Deb Matthews (London North Centre London North Centre (formerly known as London—Adelaide) is an electoral district in the province of Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1951. ) will soon be releasing a review of Ontario Works. Under existing legislation, there is a small list of items that may be exempted from the assets rule such as essential tools of the trade and a ear to a maximum value of $5,000. 416-597-5821 |
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