What is Emergency Assistance?
Ontario Works can provide immediate short-term financial assistance to someone experiencing a crisis or emergency situation. This could be useful for clients facing evictions or those recently released from custody and in need of financial assistance.
Emergency assistance includes amounts for:
- Basic needs
- Shelter
- Health benefits
How much is provided to each person is decided on a case-by-case basis but generally someone cannot get more than what they would get from Ontario Works’s regular income assistance program.
