[unclear: Hardship] Provisions

[unclear: dition] to the Tertiary Study Grant of $23 [unclear: ill] be a Supplementary Hardship Grant of up This will be available only for those in receipt [unclear: ertiary] Study Grant and who would be unable full-time without additional financial support.

[unclear: e] current STB there is a "frozen" difference of ween the abated and unabated rates. Therefore [unclear: ere] was an increase it was applied equally to all [unclear: els].

[unclear: ever] there is no guarantee that in this new two [unclear: em] this will be the case. There is every reason [unclear: ve] that when future increases are made they are be for the $17 rather than the $23.

[unclear: mparable] example is in Sweden where [unclear: er] grant/loan scheme operates. When the [unclear: a] scheme was first introduced in 1964 the [unclear: ant] represented about 25% of the total [unclear: assis-ackage]. By 1968 it was 22% and in late 1975[unclear: nly] 15%.