{"id":19464,"date":"2020-04-30T10:26:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T17:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=19464"},"modified":"2020-04-30T10:27:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T17:27:42","slug":"house-passes-9-billion-student-aid-package-boosts-amount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/04\/30\/house-passes-9-billion-student-aid-package-boosts-amount\/","title":{"rendered":"House passes $9-billion student aid package, boosts amount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/2020\/04\/22\/federal-government-announces-new-9-billion-student-aid-package\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As we reported on April 22<\/a>, the federal government has announced a $9-billion student-aid package to assist post-secondary students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The package was fast-tracked and passed by the House of Commons on Wednesday, April 29, and one of the aids was boosted.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18999\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_2923.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18999 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_2923-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_2923-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_2923.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camosun College&#8217;s Lansdowne campus (file photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Previously, students with disabilities and\/or dependents were eligible to receive up to $1,750 a month through the Canada Emergency Student Benefit; that amount was raised to $2,000 a month before the package was approved. This puts the benefit for students with disabilities and\/or dependents equal to the Canada Emergency Response Benefit amount.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/2020\/04\/28\/student-organizations-push-for-more-after-9-billion-student-aid-package-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Student groups have voiced concerns about the aid package<\/a>, which offers students without disabilities or dependents $1,250 a month.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation has been sent to Senate, which is scheduled to sit on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we reported on April 22, the federal government has announced a $9-billion student-aid package to assist post-secondary students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The package was fast-tracked and passed by the House of Commons on Wednesday, April 29, and one of the aids was boosted. Previously, students with disabilities and\/or dependents were eligible to receive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19466,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19464\/revisions\/19466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}