Ontario Disability Support Program Amendment Act (Fairness in Disability Income Support Payments), 2003 Martel, Shelley — Bill 30 (38th Parliament, 1st Session)

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Bill 30, Ontario Disability Support Program Amendment Act (Fairness in Disability Income Support Payments), 2003

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Bill 30 2003

An Act to amend the

Ontario Disability Support

Program Act, 1997 to require

annual cost-of-living adjustments

to income support payments

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

1. (1) Subsection 55 (1) of the Ontario Disability Support Program Act, 1997 is amended by adding the following paragraph:

4.1 requiring that the amount of income support provided be indexed to the cost of living as described in subsection (3.1);

(2) Section 55 of the Act, as amended by the Statutes of Ontario, 2002,

chapter 18,

Schedule D,

section 2, is amended by adding the following subsections:

Indexing amount of income support

(3.1) A regulation made under paragraph 4.1 of subsection (1) may provide that the amount of income support provided be adjusted on April 1 in each year by multiplying it by the indexing factor for that year.

Indexing factor

(3.2) The indexing factor for a year is the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for Ontario for prices of all items between the month of January in that year and the same month in the previous year, as published by

Statistics Canada.

Commencement

2. This Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short title

3. The

short title of this Act is the Ontario Disability Support Program Amendment Act (Fairness in Disability Income Support Payments), 2003 .

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Bill amends the Ontario Disability Support Program Act, 1997 to provide for regulations requiring annual cost-of-living adjustments to income support payments.

Date Bill stage Activity Committee

December 16, 2003

First Reading

Carried

Debates and Progress

First Reading

December

16, 2003

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent :

Coming into force :Royal Assent.

Acts Affected: Most Ontario public acts are available electronically; to view copies of the Acts to be amended by this bill visit e-Laws .

Ontario Disability Support Program Act, 1997

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Collection	Ontario — Bills
Citation	Bill 30, 38-1
Type	bill
Volume / chapter	p38 s1 bill 30 html
Language	en
Format	html
Source	PROVINCIAL
Identifier	e08a46cd9d127bbbe4122c34e7a1b31f1de50550

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