Emergency Benefit

This may be granted by the Department until any question of maintenance arrangements has been settled. Bursary income fo for the abatement of this benefit is calculated over a different period, namely, the university year of 36 weeks, which makes the weekly bursary allowance $20.22 instead of $14. Abatement is 10 cents for every complete 20 cents of income between $17 and $25 per week (and over this sum is 15 cents out of the 20). The emergency benefit, then, is reduced by $1.60 per week during the university year, but is unaffected in the remaining 16 weeks.