Ottawa. City Operations - Snow Go Assist Program

• provides a matching service for seniors and people with disabilities looking to hire an individual or contractor to clear snow from private driveways and walkways
• residents who participate in this program are responsible for paying the individual or contractor removing the snow

• provides financial assistance to eligible low-income seniors or persons with disabilities looking to hire an individual or contractor to clear snow from private driveways and walkways
• approved participants may be reimbursed for 50 % of the cost of snow clearing per event, up to a seasonal maximum of $250
• rural applicants who have excessively high cost of snow removal, as defined by staff, are eligible up to 50% of the cost of snow clearing for their private driveways and walkways per event, up to a maximum of $450 per term

Snow Go Program:
• seniors and people with disabilities

Seniors Go Assist Program:
• seniors 60 years and older or persons with disabilities who are physically unable to clear snow from their private driveway and/or walkway due to their own disability
• must demonstrate they qualify as low income (annual income of less than $31,500 for a single individual and less than $39,200 for a household of two people or more)
• participants must provide proof of active enrolment in one or more of the following programs:
  
  • Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS)
    
  • Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
    
  • Canada Pension Plan Disability Benefit
    
  • Ontario Works plus proof of disability and/or age
    
  • Essential Health and Social Supports plus proof of disability and/or age
    
  • Home Help plus proof of disability and/or age
    
  • low income senior or person with a disability (proof may be required)

Special circumstances may be considered
• detailed proof must be provided

Ottawa, ON
Canada