Sentences with phrase «ill children benefit»

This mean if you need an aunt or mother to care for your critically ill child in your stead, now they will be entitled to the 35 weeks of EI critically ill children benefit if they have to take time off from work to do it.

Not exact matches

Other measures include: • remove rule limiting Child Tax Credit (CTC) to one claimant per household (to allow two or more families sharing a house to claim the CTC); • repeal $ 10,000 cap on medical expense tax credit claims made on medical costs incurred for an eligible dependent; • easier access to funds in Registered Disability Savings Plans for beneficiaries with shortened life spans; • improved Employment Insurance benefits to parents of gravely ill, murdered, or missing children; and • enhanced ability to make transfers between individual RESPs, and better access to RESP funds for post-secondary students studying outside Canada.

An existing benefit that offers parents or guardians of critically ill children up to 35 weeks of coverage will also be tweaked to allow them to share that leave with other family members.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

But despite the real gains in social morality that came in the wake of the abolition of the slave trade, despite the rise in the status of women, despite the benefits that came from the enactment of child - labor laws and the establishment of the welfare state, did not the nineteenth century also bequeath to us those proposed «solutions» to social ills that led to mass starvation in Russia and China, to the utopian nightmares of communism and fascism, to wars unending, and ¯ in those societies that actually managed to abolish most social evils ¯ to a hedonism that is undermining society from within?

The benefit, which also includes a half - marathon and a 10K, is organized to raise funds to help realize the wishes of terminally ill children.

Furthermore, young and small children will probably have absolutely no benefit from using a regular seat belt rather than a car seat, and might even be exposing themselves to further injury due to an ill - fitting seat belt.

Maybe it doesn't matter which parent walks away as long as it's done for the kids» benefit, because staying would subject them to bad parental behaviors; children who grow up with an alcoholic or mentally ill parent often suffer.

Boot Camp is validated by research and has been named a best practice by many organizations that consider it an exceptional means of supporting dads - to - be and fostering behaviors that greatly benefit children and help prevent a wide range of social ills.

Instead, the program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits fail to cover a month's worth of healthful food, in light of today's rising food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family lives in a food desert where healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..

To date, research has provided clear support for the nutritional and health benefits of breastfeeding for the mother and child, 1 with appropriate cautions noted for women who are ill or on medication.

This bill would provide up to 12 weeks of disability benefit payments through the state's mandatory disability insurance system to non-disabled employees for the purposes of continuous or intermittent child bonding and caring for ill family members.

The governor's highly touted family leave plan would grant up to 12 weeks of paid benefits for any New Yorker caring for a newborn child or seriously ill relative.

Ed Balls has kicked off the annual Labour conference in Manchester with an ill - judged announcement that his party would increase child benefits by just 1 % a year until 2017 if elected to government next...

It would grant up to 12 weeks of paid benefits for any New Yorker caring for a newborn child or seriously ill relative.

But since shortly after the original law was passed, patient advocates and the bill's Assembly sponsor Richard Gottfried have decried the fact that the law made no provision to grant early access ot the drug for the extremely ill children who could benefit from it in the short term.

In 1999, Valletta's modeling intersected with social work when she helped raise over 350,000 dollars for the St. Jude Royal Gala Benefit in Monte Carlo, and later parlayed that effort into a promotional tour for Elizabeth Arden Splendor perfume that had Valletta and other company reps giving terminally ill children heartstring - tugging «moments of splendor.

And neighborhood preference could make it easier to address the poverty - related ills that prevent poor children from succeeding in school and in life, while also benefiting a whole community.

Proceeds from the auctioned vehicle will benefit two SEMA Cares charities — Childhelp, an organization that provides services to abused and neglected children, and The Victory Junction Camp, which provides life - changing camping experiences to special - needs and chronically ill children.

On that same date, a new family caregiver benefits will also kick in — one a 15 - week leave to care for a critically ill or injured adult, the other a 35 - week benefit to care for a critically ill or injured child.

An existing benefit that offers parents or guardians of critically ill children up to 35 weeks of coverage will also be tweaked to allow them to share that leave with other family members.

Win: In addition to previously announced new child - care benefits and income splitting for couples with children, families will also get increased benefits to care for gravely ill family members.

For example benefits are available for: those who are unemployed and looking for work (job seekers» allowance), additional income when an individual's earnings are low (income support), bringing up children (child benefit), retired (state pensions), care for someone, are ill or have a disability.

Employees eligible for this leave are entitled to Employment Insurance (EI) benefits for parents of critically ill children.

Changes to the Employment Insurance Act under Bill C - 44 to s. 12 of the Act which now provides up to 35 weeks of EI benefits for parents who have taken time off work to provide support or care for critically injured or ill children.

Currently, EI benefits are available in cases where a loved one is gravely ill and at significant risk of death, or where a child is critically ill or injured.

The amendments to the EIA include, among other things, allowing for parental benefits over a longer period at a lower benefit rate, allowing employees to receive maternity benefits as early as the twelfth week before the expected week of birth, creating a benefit for employees to care for a critically ill adult family member and a benefit to care for a critically ill child.

The new family caregiver benefit includes 15 weeks of caregiver benefits to care for a critically ill or injured adult, and a 35 - week benefit to care for a critically ill or injured child.

In Barrie's case, his works were assigned to the hospital which, in turn, benefited from the extra revenue stream by using the proceeds to improve patient care and purchase modern equipment and technology to treat ill children.

This entitlement corresponds to the federal Employment Insurance Act special benefits for parents of critically ill children, which can last up to thirty - five (35) weeks.

In addition, immediate and extended family members of a critically ill child will have access to up to 35 weeks of benefits.

The Bill clarifies that a family member other than parents may be entitled and share the current 35 week benefit period related to caring for a critically ill or injured child.

Parents of critically ill children will continue to have access to up to 35 weeks of benefits to care for a critically ill child, however now, with additional flexibility to share these benefits with more family members because of the new caregiver benefits.

If they are not entitled to Employment Insurance benefits, they will not be entitled to special EI benefits to care for a critically ill child.

It provides an Employment Insurance special benefit for parents of critically ill children and it makes amendments to the Canada Labour Code to provide unpaid leave guarantees for parents of missing or murdered children as the result of a suspected Criminal Code offence.

Maybe society's focus should be on promoting responsible caregiving — that removes the stigma of «single moms» as being «bad for society» (and let's not forget, most of those children also have a single father who does not seem to suffer the same stigma), and it also elevates all caregiving, an essential part of society that includes caring for the elderly and the ill and disabled (91 percent of welfare benefits go to the elderly, disabled and working households).

Although numerous studies have demonstrated the positive effects of including parents in the psychologic preparation of children for planned minor operations and procedures, 7 — 9 it is empirically unknown whether similar approaches initiated early in the ICU hospitalization would benefit critically ill children and their parents.

Broad demographic studies of the flexible and ill - defined «fatherless homes» populations, which indicate complex and multi-causated reasons for the (actually small) negative outcomes suffered by a minority of children in these «single mother home» groups are twisted, baselessly, into the political rhetoric that children «need» or «benefit» from having two parents.