Odsp And Cpp đź’«
Zero dollars. But her son’s asthma inhaler would be covered. Her muscle relaxants, too.
Marta had written that down: Clawback . It sounded like something that happened to animals in traps.
She opened CPP first. Approved. Her payment would be $847.32 a month. She almost laughed. That was less than her old weekly paycheck. odsp and cpp
She spent a Tuesday filling out the CPP forms. List all jobs in the last six years. She wrote Welding, Fab Shop, North Bay . Welding, Marine Docks, Midland. Each line felt like a tombstone for a version of herself that could still grip a torch.
Her son, Leo, seven years old, came in with a Lego spaceship. “Did we win?” he asked. Zero dollars
She sat at the table, the two letters side by side. The CPP was a thin raft—enough to keep her from drowning, but not enough to reach shore. The ODSP was a ghost boat, there in name only, its hull eaten away by the clawback.
She couldn’t weld anymore. But she could still open that drawer. And that, she decided, was a kind of victory. Marta had written that down: Clawback
“Yeah, bud,” she said, folding the papers into a neat square. “We won enough.”