16. A child whose work income or income from a public plan that would cause the financial assistance granted to the child’s family to fall below the amount to which it would be entitled if the child were not part of the family is not a person’s dependant if the person makes a request to that effect to the Minister. Despite the foregoing, if the financial assistance is granted under a last resort financial assistance program, the child continues to be a dependant of that person for the purposes of the special benefit for pharmaceutical services under section 83.
O.C. 1073-2006, s. 16; O.C. 456-2008, s. 1.