Sentences with phrase «funds for disability»

I'm not asking about using it towards issues, like raising funds for disability aide or similar; rather, specifically against a candidate or active president or congressman.

If you care for a child with disability you might be able to get funding for disability services from the NDIS.

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.

We improved accessibility through the Enabling Accessibility Fund, provided new investments for people with disabilities to join and contribute to the workforce, and helped improve access to financial independence through programs such as the Registered Disabilities Savings disabilities to join and contribute to the workforce, and helped improve access to financial independence through programs such as the Registered Disabilities Savings Disabilities Savings Plan (RDSP).

But they wanted the restructured company to stand on three legs: P&C, mutual funds, and «group» plans (comprising life and disability insurance for corporations).

The authors note, however, that reducing education fees, increasing funding support for people with disabilities, and increasing public support for long term care are needed to help protect the most vulnerable populations during times of economic recovery.

Low closing costs and fees (for those receiving VA disability benefits, the funding fee is waived)

Also, families can roll 529 funds over to ABLE accounts, which offer tax advantages for people with disabilities.

That initiative provides funds to train unemployed workers not eligible for employment insurance and is aimed at aboriginals, immigrants, women, youth, older workers, people with disabilities and those with low literacy levels.

Also — and importantly — the VA waives the funding fee for veterans with a service - connected disability and for the surviving spouses of veterans who died in service to their country.

Due to some very serious illness and I don't mean HIV / AIDS I am having to go on disability but they want me to have a payee 11 years since a conviction, Makes you want to Go to the streets and do it for yourself, also if you have no transportation how do you suppose the people get to the agencies to get help even a van ministry requires funds?

Dr. Laugeson has been a principal investigator and collaborator on a number of studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigating social skills training for youth with developmental disabilities from preschool to early adulthood and is the co-developer of an evidence - based social skills intervention for teens and young adults known as PEERS.

A recent program change also prioritizes students with particular diagnoses (including autism, developmental and intellectual disabilities, serious orthopedic impairments, and vision or hearing loss) for funding over students with other kinds of disabilities.

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Note: Depending on individual eligibility, some services for individuals with disabilities can be paid for by Medicaid, private care or other funding sources.

Robinson added, «the Arlington Heights Park District is able to fund this project using the Capital Projects monies set aside for supporting projects that make recreational facilities accessible as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)».

High needs funding is for children and young people with special educational needs or disability who need extra support at school, college or alternative provision settings.

At 9 a.m., state lawmakers and the #bFair2DirectCare Coalition urge Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature to speed up living wage funding for workers who support New Yorkers with developmental disabilities, Legislative Office Building terrace, Albany.

The latter should also be responsible for ensuring that funding is conditional on guarantees of the participation of persons with disabilities in the project.

But disability pensions must be contained or the city will not be able to make other important investments, including funds for law enforcement.

A HUGE share of his cuts have been to services / funding for people with disabilities (feel the irony?).

Meanwhile discussions elsewhere reached consensus on disability rights, taking competition out of the NHS, tribunal fees, legal aid, zero - hours and short - hours contracts, agency workers, immigration, local government funding, housing, the Middle East, the minimum wage, the living wage, Royal Mail, the railways, science and technology, mental health, fracking, animal welfare, Lords reform, reducing smoking and consumption of alcohol, fats and sugar, reaffirming all - women shortlists, youth services, careers advice, sexual and relationship education, and even the 11 - plus (recognising that selection at age 11 damaged education for all children, but stopping short of abolishing existing grammar schools).

I've been involved with the Massachusetts Special Olympics on - and - off over the years as a volunteer & as a Knight of Columbus I help raise funds for those with intellectual disabilities.

I believe that commitments made by the state and city to funding supportive housing units must be expedited and that considerations be made for people with disabilities.

We are thankful that we have been able to increase the share of the district assemblies common fund for persons with disabilities from 2 % to 3 %.

What this really represents, as outlined in a recent issue of the New York Times, amounts to a phony alibi for breaking a vow made to all combat veterans, who've literally put their lives at risk for our nation, that no matter the cost, funds needed to treat their resultant disabilities would be found and allocated, to restore their limbs and lives to reasonable levels of independence.

The 2013 - 14 proposed state budget includes a $ 120 million worth of funding cuts for the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said the Democrats» bill uses the existing Temporary Disability Fund to give workers up to two thirds of their pay to care for a sick family member or bond with a new born.

This project has also received funding from the New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD).

In the past, social security disability payments have been partly funded with money intended for the bigger and better - funded social security retirement account.

As a result of the testimony given, the report recommends the state Department of Education immediately address several concerns, such as expediting waivers from the U.S. Department of Education «to relax onerous and rigid testing restrictions placed on certain students,» especially with English as a Second Language students and students with disabilities; producing all missing or incomplete curriculum modules; aligning assessments proportionally to curriculum actually implemented; and increasing funding for the professional development of teachers.

The city will eliminate funding for Mental Retardation and Developmental Disability clinical programs and reduce funding for case management in the Department of Aging, which provide seniors with home care and home delivered meals.

I want to thank the state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance for funding this proposal, but also all of the people in Madison and Herkimer counties, as well as Oneida County, who worked to make this proposal a success.

At 11 a.m., advocates for people with developmental disabilities, including #bFair2DirectCare members, and elected officials hold a press conference to highlight the «300 Days to Better Pay» campaign and call for funding increase in the state budget for wages for underpaid staff, Nassau County Supreme Court Building, 100 Supreme Court Dr., Mineola.

The campaign pushing for funding in the state budget workers who provide direct care services to those with developmental disabilities is upset Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 30 - day budget amendments do not include the funding they have sought.

The Democratic - led Assembly in March approved a version of paid family leave which would expand the temporary disability insurance fund in order to pay for it.

Additionally, the Office of the Third Sector now funds a National Talent Bank to provide volunteering opportunities for people whose work has been affected by the recession, and has created an Access to Volunteering programme to enable more people with disabilities to volunteer.

At 11 a.m., people with disabilities, workers and advocates speak gather to push for funding for the minimum wage, «The Well» of the Legislative Office Building, Albany.

At noon, advocates for people with developmental disabilities and the #bFair2DirectCare campaign urge Cuomo and the state Legislature to provide funds so direct care workers can be paid a living wage, Duffy Square, 47th Street and Seventh Avenue, Manhattan.

Halton Housing Trust told the DWP Select Committee that the initial response from tenants affected by the reduced cap was to apply for emergency funding or for those disability benefits that are exempt from the cap.

Also at 10 a.m., the Assembly holds a public hearing to examine the funding included in the 2017 - 2018 budget to enhance the housing opportunities for individuals who receive services and support from the state Office of Mental Health or the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, LOB, Roosevelt Hearing Room C, Albany.

Malloy says he'll be forced to cut funding to summer youth jobs programs and services for people with disabilities.

He has fought successfully to protect and increase funding for Medicaid, school health clinics, AIDS services, and other health concerns and was the author of legislation to provide legal services for persons with disabilities.

With my experience at DirectTV Latin America managing the budgets for 16 different countries, I know that I will be able to push for a city budget that provides adequate funding to MOPD and gives funding to agencies to provide resources to the disability community.

Meanwhile, the Ghana Federation of Disability Organisation is threatening to embark on a demonstration if the government does not come clear on the fresh guidelines for the distribution of the common fund.

The group also says it would inappropriately use the existing disability benefit fund for another purpose.

«I'm still standing as hard as I can for local control and increased insurance limits and the black car fund and disability rights,» said Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, a Democrat from Kingston who chairs the chamber's insurance committee.

Also at 11 a.m., advocates for people with developmental disabilities and elected officials hold a news conference to highlight the «300 Days to Better Pay» campaign calling for a funding increase in the state budget for wages for underpaid staff, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

«Legislative reforms in regard to... additional support for people with disabilities and carers have been welcomed but are not fully funded by government causing financial burden on the council.»

In urban central cities, funding levels per student tend to be at least average, but student needs (e.g. for special education for students with learning disabilities and for general support for very poor students such as homeless students) tend to be much greater.