Your personal information, including your Social Insurance Number (SIN), provided in connection with the applicant’s application and award of financial assistance, including previous applications and financial assistance received, will be collected and used by the Ministry of Colleges and Universities (ministry) to administer and finance the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) and by Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) to administer and finance the Canada Student Loans Program (CSLP). The ministry and ESDC may use other parties for any of these activities. Under agreement with ESDC, the National Student Loans Service Centre (NSLSC) uses your personal information to administer OSAP and CSLP. Under agreement with the ministry, the applicant’s postsecondary institution and, where authorized by the ministry, its agents who administer OSAP and its auditors, use your personal information to administer OSAP and CSLP.

Administration includes: determining eligibility for financial assistance; verifying this application, including verifying the amounts and types of any other form of provincial or federal government financial assistance; updating the applicant’s OSAP profile; paying the applicant’s financial assistance; verifying the applicant’s financial assistance, any relief granted from any payment the applicant is required to make and any loan rehabilitation; considering any applications for review of determinations relating to financial assistance, eligibility for relief from any payment or loan rehabilitation; auditing the applicant’s file; assessing and collecting loans, overpayments, and repayments; enforcing the legislation set out below and the applicant’s agreements with the ministry and ESDC; and monitoring and auditing the NSLSC and the applicant’s postsecondary institution or its authorized agents to ensure that they are administering the programs appropriately. In addition, administration by the ministry and ESDC includes public reporting on postsecondary education and training, including the administration and financing of student assistance programs and accessibility to, and affordability of, postsecondary education; planning, delivering, evaluating and monitoring student assistance programs for quality and improvements in both content and delivery, including establishing and monitoring the minimum amount of student aid the applicant’s postsecondary institution is required to provide under the Student Access Guarantee, if applicable; conducting risk management, error management, audit and quality assessment activities; conducting inspections or investigations; and conducting research related to postsecondary education and training, including all aspects of student assistance programs and accessibility to and affordability of postsecondary education such as developing key performance indicators on the aggregated Ontario Student Loan default rates of the applicant’s postsecondary institution or for the purpose of evaluating or developing programs. The ministry may also disclose your personal information to other ministries of the Ontario government for the purpose of conducting postsecondary education related research on behalf of the ministry. You may be contacted to participate in surveys related to postsecondary education and training. Financing includes: planning, arranging, or providing funding of the programs.

The ministry collects your personal information under the authority of the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.M.19, as amended, O. Reg. 70/17 as amended, and O. Reg. 282/13 as amended; s.10.1 of the Financial Administration Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.F.12, as amended; the Canada Student Financial Assistance Act, S.C. 1994, c. 28, as amended and the Canada Student Financial Assistance Regulations, SOR 95-329, as amended and s. 266.3(4) of the Education Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.E.2. If you have any questions about the collection or use of this information, contact the Director, Student Financial Assistance Branch, Ministry of Colleges and Universities, PO Box 4500, 189 Red River Road, 4th Floor, Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7B 6G9; 807-343-7260.

• I understand that the information on this form, including my residency history provided by the applicant, is a necessary part of the calculation of any financial assistance to the applicant. The information I have given is complete and true, and I will notify the applicant’s financial aid office or the ministry in writing if there are any changes. I agree that the ministry may use my personal information provided on this form and on OSAP application forms that may be submitted by the applicant in the future for the administration and enforcement of an OSAP application that may be made by me, my spouse and/or any other dependent children.
• I agree that until the applicant’s loans, any amounts of excess financial assistance received , and any other required repayments of financial assistance are assessed and repaid, the ministry can, without limitation, indirectly collect and exchange personal information about me that is relevant to the administration and financing of OSAP, and CSLP with: the applicant; ESDC; Canada Revenue Agency (CRA); NSLSC; the applicant’s postsecondary institution and its authorized auditors and financial administration agents; bodies identified on this application by name or bodies that administer programs identified on this application; persons or bodies, including government bodies within and outside Canada, that may have information about my sources of income or residency; other parties used by the ministry to administer and finance OSAP; ESDC’s contractors and auditors; and Ontario’s Ministry of Finance and collection agencies operated or retained by the federal or provincial governments.
• I understand that personal information about me provided on OSAP applications that may be made by the applicant in the future will also be subject to use and disclosure in accordance with the previous bullet.
• I have advised my dependents who are 16 years of age or older that I have provided limited personal information about them on this application and future applications made by the applicant. I have shown them this section and I have obtained their consent to the disclosure and use of their limited personal information for the administration and financing of OSAP.
• I understand that the personal information I provide in connection with this application and future applications made by the applicant and other personal information relevant to a reassessment or appeal will be disclosed to the applicant and any person(s) authorized by the applicant to have access to all information in the applicant’s OSAP file.
• I understand that I can withdraw any consent I have given relating to an academic year for which the applicant has not received any financial assistance by writing to the Director, Student Financial Assistance Branch, Ministry of Colleges and Universities, PO BOX 4500, 189 Red River Road, 4th Floor, Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7B 6G9, at any time before the applicant accepts financial assistance. I understand that I cannot withdraw any consent relating to an academic year for which the applicant has received any amount of financial assistance. I understand that if I withdraw any consent, this will affect the applicant’s eligibility for, and the type and amount of, financial assistance under OSAP.

I have read and understood all parts of this section, including the notice of collection, use and disclosure of my personal information and my signature attests to my consent to the indirect collection, use and disclosure of my personal information and that my declaration is complete and true.

I authorize the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to provide to the ministry identifying and income and expense information about me (“the information”) from its tax records. The information will be used solely for the purpose of determining the applicant’s entitlement to, and collecting overpayments of, financial assistance under the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP). The ministry will not disclose the information to any person or organization without my written consent, except to the applicant or where authorized by or where required by law. The ministry administers OSAP under the authority of the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.M.19, as amended, O. Reg. 70/17 as amended and O. Reg. 282/13 as amended; s.10.1 of the Financial Administration Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.F.12, as amended; the Canada Student Financial Assistance Act, S.C. 1994, c. 28, as amended and the Canada Student Financial Assistance Regulations, SOR 95-329, as amended and s. 266.3(4) of the Education Act. This consent applies to the 2018, 2019 and 2020 taxation years and to any subsequent taxation year for which assistance is requested and my information is required.