OHIP Question

[bono1]

Hi, My wife will arrive in Sept for 2 weeks and land as a PR, then go back home and return in early Feb and live permanently in Ontario. At what point in time is she eligible to apply for OHIP? how long before she gets OHIP coverage?

Thanks

 

[Rob_TO]

Hi, My wife will arrive in Sept for 2 weeks and land as a PR, then go back home and return in early Feb and live permanently in Ontario. At what point in time is she eligible to apply for OHIP? how long before she gets OHIP coverage?

Thanks

She will be eligible to apply after she establishes residency in Ontario, plus 3 months waiting time.

So if she arrives for good in February 2015, she would have OHIP coverage by May 2015.

 

[bono1]

She will be eligible to apply after she establishes residency in Ontario, plus 3 months waiting time.

So if she arrives for good in February 2015, she would have OHIP coverage by May 2015.

Thanks. What proof do we need to provide that she has established residency?. How do they know she landed and left the country? When she arrives in Sept, she will be staying with me and the address she provides will be mine. And when she comes back in Feb 2015, she will stay with me.

 

[Rob_TO]

See the attached file: http://www.forms.ssb.gov.on.ca/mbs/ssb/forms/ssbforms.nsf/GetFileAttach/014-9998E-82~1/$File/9998-82E.pdf

She needs one of the specific documents in "List 2". It must be exact document as written, usually they don't accept any substitute.

If she tries to register for OHIP immediately after landing in Sept, but then returns to home country for 5 months, that would not meet OHIP eligibility criteria. OHIP can track exit/entry from Canada via CBSA, so I would not try it. Just wait until she comes for good. Make sure she has private travel emergency medical coverage for the time before she can get OHIP.

 

[keesio]

Thanks. What proof do we need to provide that she has established residency?. How do they know she landed and left the country? When she arrives in Sept, she will be staying with me and the address she provides will be mine. And when she comes back in Feb 2015, she will stay with me.

She will need to show residency status in Canada (PR Card, signed CoPR, etc) and something with her name and Ontario address (Bank statements, Ontario driver's license, lease agreement, etc).

They will know she landed via PR Card or CoPR. If she lands and then leaves, OHIP will not automatically know that she left. They could get the information if they ever decided to audit her.

 

[keesio]

OHIP can track exit/entry from Canada

Do they automatically track? I always assumed they could get this info if they decided to audit you but that they don't automatically know.

 

[Rob_TO]

Do they automatically track? I always assumed they could get this info if they decided to audit you but that they don't automatically know.

Not automatic, but why risk it? You could go to hospital and get everything via OHIP, then if they actually checked that you were eligible and found you weren't, you'd get a huge bill to pay everything back.

 

[keesio]

Not automatic, but why risk it? You could go to hospital and get everything via OHIP, then if they actually checked that you were eligible and found you weren't, you'd get a huge bill to pay everything back.

Oh yeah, absolutely I agree.

 

[bono1]

thanks for the info.