i too was on ODSP with all its limitations for many years. because of poverty and trying to feed my kids that i got on weekends and holidays with no other support, i attempted t return to work in constant pain..after getting the OBIPP i was able to look for an apartment in Lindsay…i was…
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BI=Healthier food=less seizures
I live in Thunder Bay, am 51 and have uncontrolled seizures from epilepsy. Before being accepted on BI, I was on ODSP. The increase in money while on BI allowed me to buy healthier food, which has helped decrease the amount and severity of the Grand Mal seizures I have. It was so nice knowing…
From PTSD and ODSP to Hope and Then Back to Hopelessness
Before I got onto the Basic Income Program I had been a recipient of ODSP for many years, due to PTSD. On ODSP I often had to pick between bills or groceries and frequented food banks. I had to buy all of my clothing used, only owning for myself 5 shirts and 4 pairs of…
After 7 months on the BIP
-We were nearly stress free =Husbands hair had stopped falling out after we left ODSP and was growing back -Migraines and seizures have been cut in half meaning less pills and pain -Fainting spells have been reduced allowing me to take the pills less often -More able to focus on getting my memory problems under…
Basic Income and the Disabled
At twenty, I was diagnosed with four mental illnesses. It took most of 10 years to correctly diagnose my problems and figure out how to treat them; then, eight years ago, I lost all of the vision in my left eye and 90% in my right. During those ten years, in spite of my struggles,…
Having tasted the freedom of Basic Income, i refuse the Chains of ODSP.
The Ontario Basic Income Program gave me back my Dignity . I felt that my community was showing me, I was a valued member. By putting money where its mouth is, and equally important, where my mouth is. Rather than Poverty the forced upon me by my Government with its Ontario Disability Support Program and…
No More Hope
I’m a 24 year old woman from Thunder Bay, I have mental health issues and some physical issues that make it hard for me to become employed. I have applied to countless jobs and nothing wants me not even Mc Donalds (the only job I have had recently only paid $100 dollars monthly and I…
Single mother with daughter with life threatening disability
Am a single mother with 3 children. My oldest daughter is 8 years old. She is severely disabled and requires 24 hour care for which I am the only provider. She has many appointments with specialists every month and will soon need multiple heart surgeries. Therefore am unable to work. She needs me to be…
OBIP saved my life, but for how long now???
A while ago I ended up on the street for over a year due to back injury that has prevented me from keeping employment and losing all my ID. I was bed ridden, but on the street so there was no bed… I was just laying down in the woods most of the time waiting…
NEW COAT
WHEN I RECIEVED THE FORM FOR BASIC INCOME PROGRAM I THOUGHT WELL THEY SENT ME THE FORMS I DID NOT SEEK THEM OUT SO THIS MIGHT BE A BIG HELP EVEN IF IT WAS A TRIAL PROGRAM. IAM 62 YEARS OLD AND WORKED MOST OF MY LIFE I RAISED 3 CHILDREN AND I WORKED AT…