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*you must need significant help from another person to do specific daily activities, or else require help from an assistive device or assistance animal to perform those activities. | *you must need significant help from another person to do specific daily activities, or else require help from an assistive device or assistance animal to perform those activities. | ||
If you do not qualify for the PWD designation, you may still qualify for the PPMB designation. | If you do not qualify for the PWD designation, you may still qualify for the PPMB designation. There were major changes to the criteria for the PPMB designation in | ||
To qualify for the PPMB designation: | |||
* You must have a health condition that "seriously impedes" your ability to search for, accept, or continue in employment. "Seriously impedes" means your health condition stops you | |||
from working in any job that would allow you to get off welfare. | |||
• You must also have at least one additional barrier from the following list: | |||
o experience family violence or have experienced family violence in the past | |||
six months | |||
o are homeless or have been homeless in the past 12 months | |||
o have less than a Grade 12 education | |||
o need English language skills training | |||
o don’t have basic skills for employment | |||
o have a criminal record | |||
o have used emergency health services, mental health service, or addiction | |||
services multiple times in the past 12 months | |||
o are a recent Convention refugee (in the last 24 months) or a refugee claimant | |||
o are a former child in care (Ministry of Children and Family Development or | |||
similar Canadian jurisdiction) | |||
o have other severe barriers to employment listed on your application. | |||
Before July 1, 2019, the Ministry did not consider addiction to be a "health condition" that could qualify for you for PPMB benefits. If you applied for PPMB benefits before July 1, 2019 and were refused the PPMB designation, you can apply for the PPMB designation again under the current criteria. | |||
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