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Ontario Long-Term Care Home Rate Reduction Program

Ontario program that reduces the basic accommodation co-payment for long-term care residents who cannot afford it. Maximum co-payment fees effective July 1, 2026 are $70.00 a day ($2,129.17 a month) for long-stay basic, $84.40 a day ($2,567.17) for semi-private and $100.01 a day ($3,041.97) for private, with short-stay at $45.31 a day. Only basic accommodation is eligible for a reduction.

Ontario Transitional Health Benefit

The ODSP Transitional Health Benefit lets people who leave ODSP for work keep drug, dental and vision coverage, and coverage for batteries and repairs for mobility devices, until their employer provides comparable coverage. It applies when income from employment, paid training or self-employment brings the benefit unit to or above its budgetary requirements and the employer does not offer health benefits comparable to ODSP's.

Ontario Extended Health Benefit

The ODSP Extended Health Benefit keeps health coverage for people leaving ODSP income support because their income is now too high. It is available to four groups under section 45 of the ODSP General Regulation: a recipient whose income exceeds their budgetary requirements but whose eligible health costs are higher than that excess; people grandparented from Family Benefits on 31 May 1998 because of CPP or QPP disability income (no new cases); people whose income exceeds requirements because of loss of income or loss of support payments under the 1986-1990 Hepatitis C Settlement Agreement who were in a benefit unit on 1 April 1999; and a benefit unit that exits ODSP because of income from Better Jobs Ontario.