Sentences with phrase «below poverty line get»

This is because families below poverty line get free connections.

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If a prospect's income drops 150 percent below the poverty line, he or she gets a pass on repaying backers that year.

Around the world entire economies fall below the poverty line and are unable to meet the identification requirements needed to get a bank account.

Depending on which figures one adopts, some 40 per cent of the population is below the poverty line (defined here as the inability to get access to 2,200 calories per day) Once the facts are acknowledged, teachers say, the appropriate value responses must still be discussed.

Growing up in the second poorest county in Illinois, where many families below the poverty line depended on venison from hunting to get through the winter, the only times I saw people like me on TV were in Dukes of Hazard reruns (my own family has a storied moonshining history) and in a VHS copy of the 1974 film Where the Red Fern Grows.

STEVE: How are we going to stop it when the majority of people are below the poverty line and many have got disease?

Instead, Brooklyn Castle chronicles a messy reality — that of Intermediate School 318, a Brooklyn middle school where 70 percent of the kids live below the poverty line, and where funding cuts are threatening the after - school activities that are key to getting many of them engaged.

However, if your income is insufficient to both repay the debt using income - based repayment and provide for a minimal standard of living (e.g., you are living below 150 % of the poverty line), this situation is expected to persist for most of the term of the loan and you made a good faith effort to repay the debt, you may be able to get an undue hardship discharge.

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.

80 % below the poverty line and more than 1/2 of those in the middle class — the people who need legal help the most can not get access to even modest legal advice on serious issues like custody, divorce and criminal questions.

Government of India has switched to the next gear on getting Below Poverty Lines (BPL) families insured under Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), aRead More