Ministry of Community and Social Services

Additional Benefit Wizard Additional Benefit Wizard

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Medium Sensitivity

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What is the Additional Benefit Wizard?

• The Wizard is a series of connected screens which you will use to capture all the information necessary to issue the following benefits:

– Mandatory Benefits– Discretionary Benefits– Employment Assistance Supports– Non-Shareable Benefits

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What can the Wizard do for you ?

• The Wizard will allow you to quickly and easily issue benefits to your clients

• It will replace notes and notes string

• It will replace lengthy calculations and cheat sheets

• Three or four intuitive steps is all that’s needed to complete the Wizard

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What are these intuitive steps ?• You select the benefit type and the Wizard guides you

to enter the amount, the payee and the payment method

• The Wizard knows that certain benefits require an extra step

• This extra step or, additional information page, requires a greater degree of detail

Additional Information page

• Benefits which require an additional information page are:

• Mandatory Special Necessities benefits• Travel and Transportation for Medical purposes (OW)• Diabetic Supplies, Surgical Supplies and Dressings (OW)• Employment Training Start Up benefit• Other Employment and Employment Activities benefit• Employment Related Expenses• Vision Care, Hearing Aid, Mobility Devices

• Let’s look at the additional information page for the ODSP MSN Medical Transportation-Travel as an example…

Additional Information page• As you can see, details usually recorded in “Notes” are now entered directly in

dedicated fields

• Additionally, in this example, the system will automatically calculate a $200.00 Benefit amount based on Cost per visit x Number of Visits per Month fields

Rules, Rules, Rules

• Is the case active?• Is the member active?• Has the amount of the Additional benefit exceeded a

set maximum?• When was it last issued?

• These are examples of rules that have been automated and will be applied on SAVE, the final step of the wizard

SAVE, the final step• On SAVE the following happens

The Benefit is calculatedThe Eligibility is determinedThe results are displayed for you to view and understand how the

system arrived at that decision The Benefit is added to monthly cheque or can be issued in real timeThe system generates a letter whether benefit approved or denied

The Wizard is waiting…

I hope you've learned something new today and if you have questions, please feel free to ask me now

Otherwise, please proceed to the simulation to experience the magic of the Wizard yourself Thank you