Sentences with phrase «increased aid eligibility»

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The bill fails to invest in student aid to improve access or affordability for low - income students; instead, the Committee should consider increasing the maximum Pell Grant, maintaining the inflation adjustment for Pell, and expanding Pell eligibility to undocumented and justice - impacted students.

If parents have tapped into retirement funds, it should be added to either untaxed income or adjusted gross income, not both, or the Expected Family Contribution (EFC) will increase, and aid eligibility will decrease.

As part of the 2014 provincial budget, the Ontario Liberals promised to increase the eligibility threshold for legal aid services by six per cent each year over three years.

The increase — which represents a $ 32 - million commitment by the province — is the second in just five months under Premier Kathleen Wynne, whose 2014 budget committed to boosting eligibility thresholds for legal aid by nearly 20 per cent.

The use of some legal aid funds to monitor and assess the provision of certificates, rather than just increase eligibility, could be of some assistance.

To a follow - up question on the legacy of his time in office, Bach replies that he «increased eligibility for civil legal aid and that despite cuts in other areas I protected SWL».

It seems to me that this data argues powerfully for both increasing eligibility for legal aid, so that fewer litigants are left without counsel, and lawyers to consider the unbundling of legal services, providing services at a flat rate or on a barter basis, and exploring other creative approaches to paid legal services than the billable hour.

But according to a report in the Edmonton Journal, he told a CTV news reporter: «If we are going to give legal aid additional funds, I want it to go toward increasing the eligibility requirement and not more money for criminal defence lawyers.»

However, in spite my advice, the Minister did announce a small increase in funding for Ontario Legal Aid, and so LAO has announced new financial eligibility guidelines.

According to Michael Ferguson, a spokesman for Ontario's attorney general, when the 2014 budget is reintroduced, it will include a proposal to increase the legal aid eligibility threshold by 6 per cent a year over the next seven years.

This simplified formula ignores assets, thereby increasing eligibility for financial aid.