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Ontario’s Disability Program serves as a source of financial assistance for families in which someone was injured and disabled during a sports competition. The monetary aid gets sent out on a monthly basis. It covers the cost for items such as food, shelter, clothing and medications.
How the same program helps those former players that are looking for a job
• It arranges for them to get together with job coaches.
• It offers free job training for disabled workers.
• It provides those searching for a job with a well-trained assistant.
• It covers the cost of transportation to the site of an interview.
• It arranges for a new hire to obtain any necessary equipment or tools.
• It helps with locating necessary documents.
History of program
In the past there was a cap on the size of the award given to any one injured victim. Now there is no longer a cap on the amount awarded to someone that has suffered a personal injury. When authorities announced that change, they announced another change as well.
In the past, the benefits reflected the extent to which any additional income might be available to the injured victim. In the past, money for pain and suffering and coverage for loss of companionship was viewed as part of a victim’s real income. Now that is no longer the case.
Now those sorts of funds are viewed as exempted money. Those funds do not get counted, when the government tries to determine a victim’s actual income. On the other hand, the government will continue to count money for income replacement, non-earners’ benefits and any award for future income losses.
One benefit not mentioned in the literature about the changes
Personal injury lawyer in Cambridge knows that the benefits not mentioned is the one that pertains to payments for future income losses. A disabled victim needs to get prepared for a life in which it may be hard to find a job. That explains the mention of the future loss of income. What has not been mentioned in any online postings is reimbursement for future competitiveness in the workplace, owing to the victim’s in ability to match all the qualifications of a truly able-bodied adult.
In some ways that oversight has been dealt with to a degree. Some of community colleges offer a free class on basic computer skills. Students in those particular classes feel ready to explore the computer-related possibilities open to them. Their greater knowledge of computer basics makes it easier for them to explore that possibility. In that area, each of them can compete on an equal footing with more able-bodied job applicants. So, the computer classes cancel out the absence of competitiveness in the workplace of certain injured victims.