{"id":62,"date":"2012-06-14T14:38:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T14:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/?p=62"},"modified":"2012-06-14T14:38:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T14:38:55","slug":"social-assistance-review-webinars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Social Assistance Review Webinars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With great thanks to the folks at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.incomesecurity.org\">Income Security Advocacy Centre <\/a>for putting this together, and to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourlegalrights.on.ca\">CLEO<\/a> for making the content available.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario has recently undertaken a broadly-focused <a href=\"http:\/\/sareview.ca\">review of its social assistance <\/a>(welfare) system.\u00a0 These webinars were done to help people understand what was happening, and present a few ideas for ways the system could be improved.\u00a0 They&#8217;re all fairly long, but for good reason.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an ambitious project and the cynic in me wonders whether it will ever turn into anything, but I&#8217;m impressed that they&#8217;re doing it at all.\u00a0 The webinars from ISAC are:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yourlegalrights.on.ca\/webinar\/83721\">Part I: Tax-delivered income<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yourlegalrights.on.ca\/webinar\/83725\">Part II: Moving benefits outside OW and ODSP\u00a0<\/a>(OW is income support &#8220;welfare&#8221; and ODSP is disability\u00a0&#8220;welfare&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yourlegalrights.on.ca\/webinar\/83726\">Part III: Merging OW and ODSP<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yourlegalrights.on.ca\/webinar\/83899\">Understanding the Options<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With great thanks to the folks at the Income Security Advocacy Centre for putting this together, and to CLEO for making the content available. Ontario has recently undertaken a broadly-focused review of its social assistance (welfare) system.\u00a0 These webinars were done to help people understand what was happening, and present a few ideas for ways &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/?p=62\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,9,14],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canada","tag-financial-literacy","tag-public-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.magil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}