Sentences with phrase «aid eligibility threshold»
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.
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His income in 2015 was $ 16,211.42, over the $ 12,000 threshold for legal aid eligibility for single individuals.
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.
Law Society president Joe Egan said «The financial eligibility test for civil legal aid is disqualifying people from receiving badly - needed legal advice and representation, even though they are already below the poverty line... The position has been getting progressively worse, because the means test thresholds have been frozen since 2010, while the cost of living, of course, has not.
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.
An additional quarter of a million low - income Ontarians are now eligible for legal aid funding after Legal Aid Ontario boosted its eligibility thresholds yesterdaid funding after Legal Aid Ontario boosted its eligibility thresholds yesterdAid Ontario boosted its eligibility thresholds yesterday.
«Although the province has recognized this and has made a multi-year commitment to raising the legal aid financial eligibility thresholds, Legal Aid Ontario has a yearly budget it must adhere to and it must prioritize, in accordance with its legislation, the cases it is able to fund,» said Feroneh Neil in an emaaid financial eligibility thresholds, Legal Aid Ontario has a yearly budget it must adhere to and it must prioritize, in accordance with its legislation, the cases it is able to fund,» said Feroneh Neil in an emaAid Ontario has a yearly budget it must adhere to and it must prioritize, in accordance with its legislation, the cases it is able to fund,» said Feroneh Neil in an email.
The government agreed to widen the evidence threshold for assessing whether a victim of domestic violence is eligible for legal aid: Among other things, evidence from a GP, a refuge, a domestic violence support worker, or a police caution will be sufficient to assess eligibility for victims of domestic violence to access private family legal aid.