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Policy 5005 - Student Living Allowance

Print Version: Student Living Allowance pdf file

Date Passed: November 15, 2005

Legislation:
Education Act, Sec 11, 48 pdf file
Student Residences and Boarding Programs Regulations O.I.C. 1991/073 pdf file

Cross Reference:
Policy No. 5001 Gadzoosdaa Student Residence

Purpose and Principles

The Department of Education supports:

  1. Yukon students who need to live away from home to attend school and who may require support in the form of accommodation and/or a boarding allowance.

  2. Providing a boarding allowance for those Yukon students where there is no grade 10, 11 and 12 program in their home communities, or where they have moved to Whitehorse to attend a specialized program such as M.A.D., A.C.E.S, etc.

Standards and Procedures

Eligibility for a boarding allowance:

  1. Any Yukon student who is attending school away from home, not residing in the Gadzoosdaa Residence, and residing temporarily in a private home with a guardian or parent in the Whitehorse catchment area.

  2. Yukon students attending school away from home who are registered as students completing grades 10,11 or 12.

Allowance:

  1. As per Regulation 91/73, the Department of Education will provide the following boarding allowance to students attending school away from home and residing temporarily in a private home:

    1. An allowance of $270 for each calendar month that the school is in session.

  2. This allowance will be paid providing that the student is in attendance at the school or at a school sponsored activity on those days when school is officially in session or has been officially excused by the school administration from attending.

  3. Where students are absent, but not excused from school, the boarding allowance may be pro-rated.

Requirements:

  1. A letter from an education authority such as a school administrator or Executive Director of a First Nation is required to verify that parents have temporarily relocated from their primary residence in order to live with and support their child attending secondary school away from their home community.