What Does Odsp - Cover

Basic needs : $733 for food, clothes, hygiene, hydro. She had learned to make soup from carrot peels and the ghost of a chicken. Her own socks were darned three times over. Last winter, she wore two sweaters to bed so Leo could have the extra blanket.

Maya thought about what ODSP didn’t cover. It didn’t cover the bus fare to the MS clinic (two zones, $7.50). It didn’t cover the new battery for her wheelchair when the old one groaned up the hill to Leo’s school. It didn’t cover the quiet dread that lived in her chest—the math problem that never solved: $1,255 total. Rent $1,100. Leftover: $155. Food? Hydro? Leo’s feet growing again? what does odsp cover

The coin stopped spinning. She picked it up—a loonie. The last one until next week’s cheque. Basic needs : $733 for food, clothes, hygiene, hydro

She opened her laptop, the screen cracked but still glowing. She had typed this letter before, in different versions, to different MPPs. But tonight, her fingers moved differently. Dear whoever keeps the ledger, Last winter, she wore two sweaters to bed