What about parents on ODSP or OW?
Parents have to report child support payments to Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) or Ontario Works (OW). But, child support payments do not affect the amount of income assistance that a parent gets. So if they get child support, they get that money and their income assistance.
But this only applies to child support that is owed for periods of time on or after these dates:
- January 1, 2017, for parents who get ODSP
- February 1, 2017, for parents who get OW
The Child Support Guidelines say that payor parents on income assistance with a yearly income of $12,000 or less do not have to make child support payments.
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