This is the final day for people who normally have their Ontario Works welfare cheque mailed to them to pick it up in person.
The Employment and Social Services Department set up a three-day contingency plan to accommodate people during rotating strikes by workers at Canada Post.
Executive Director Andrew Daher says 500 people collected their cheques over the first two days.
"We're hopeful that we'll have more people coming through, we're probably sitting around 35 to 40% of those individuals picking up their cheques so we're hopeful to see more people coming through," says Daher.
He says they've tried to have more people move to direct deposit, which isn't impacted by the strikes.
"About 15% of our caseloads or around 1,200 cases are actually receiving cheques," says Daher. We've made a really concerted effort over I'd say the last six months or so to get more people to sign up with our Direct Banking Deposit program, so about 85% are currently with DBD."
Even after Thursday, people will still be able to collect their cheques at 400 City Hall Square or the Leamington satellite office but they should contact their case worker.
People going to collect a cheque must have two pieces of government issued identification, one of which includes a photo.
Daher says they'll start making calls Monday to clients who haven't collected their cheque.