Currently in Ontario, if an injured person is receiving social assistance through Ontario Works, the person is only allowed to keep $25,000 of their total court awarded compensation for pain and suffering.
Toronto –This afternoon, the Wynne government has made public a formal invitation from the Health Minister to Ed Clark to “assess and validate the value these [health data, e-health records and related intellectual property and infrastructure] systems have created for Ontario and to recommend ways to take them to the next level”.