Is "Second Career" social assistance?

[Justos]

Hey guys,

My partner of 4 years is looking to sponsor me and I'm unsure after a bunch of reading if he is ineligible because he has received funding to go back to school. I have read that "wellfare" is social assistance, and OSAP does not count, but he is not on OSAP.

Here is a line from their website : "Laid off? Looking for a new career? Second Career is an Ontario government program that will pay your tuition."

He currently holds a part time job and is in school full time. Is he ineligible? I fear I will have to leave Canada because of this.

 

[profiler]

Hey guys,

My partner of 4 years is looking to sponsor me and I'm unsure after a bunch of reading if he is ineligible because he has received funding to go back to school. I have read that "wellfare" is social assistance, and OSAP does not count, but he is not on OSAP.

Here is a line from their website : "Laid off? Looking for a new career? Second Career is an Ontario government program that will pay your tuition."

He currently holds a part time job and is in school full time. Is he ineligible? I fear I will have to leave Canada because of this.

I don't think it's Social Assistance. I think it's a program that actually has existed for 40 or 50 years under the Manpower/EI arm of Human Resource Skills Development Canada (or it's various other names). They will pay to retrain a person once in their life, with no expectation to repay. I don't think it's being run by the OW office. OW in Ontario is what your partner wants to avoid like the plague.

 

[Justos]

Thank you so much! You have made my day, and its my birthday! My lawyer also confirmed the same thing