Thank you. That's a bit of a complex question. I can ask perhaps Mr. Saturnino to answer. Because I know from my experience applying for SFA, there's different pots of money and there's different amounts that you can get. So Mr. Saturnino, for you. Thank you.
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Saturnino
Thank you, Madam Chair. As the Member stated, the benefits for Indigenous students are grants. For non-Indigenous students that were schooled in the Northwest Territories, they're eligible for remissible loans, which can be forgiven at a later date. The benefit levels are comparable, or the same, for those students. And if you're a non-schooled student, then you will be eligible for repayable loans, and that is an income-tested benefit or loan amount which defers from the others -- the other two categories. Thank you.
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Jane Weyallon Armstrong Monfwi
I have been, you know, hearing from students that -- our SFA, we do -- it's not enough. So lot of them, they do take full -- I have access to some of the student loans for their school year. So that's what they are saying so that's why I -- you know, SFA is not -- it is good program. I think that's one of the best but it's just that students are complaining, saying because of the high cost of living it's not enough for us. And if we're given more money then we would not be applying for the student loans because when they come back, they have to pay that one back. It's not the same as the remissible loan. So that's the part that lot of students are complaining about. So I just wanted to mention that.
And I wanted to ask does any of the outstanding student loan or remissible loan gets written off besides that remissible -- where, you know, that -- like, they don't pay the full amount after the remissible or after, you know, half is forgiven?
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R.J. Simpson Hay River North
Thank you. So the benefit levels are supposed to pay for 80 percent of the cost of going to school in Edmonton. And that was in 2015, I believe, it was 80 percent. So you know, with the review, we're going to look at what the levels are now and what it would cost to -- you know, to support students at different levels. But, you know, we also have programs for when students do return. So if you did get a repayable loan, you can qualify for the northern bonus which is a -- I believe $2,000 a year for every year that you are living back in the territory. So you can get $10,000 knocked off your loan, as I did over the last five years, and I just recently got my last payment of $2,000. So I highly recommend that program. Thank you.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Thank you. Members, noting the clock, committee members, I will now rise and report progress.
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The Speaker Frederick Blake Jr.
May I please have the Report of Committee of the Whole. Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes.
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Lesa Semmler Inuvik Twin Lakes
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Bills 23, 29, 38; Minister's Statement 202-19(2); Tabled Document 561, 567, 578, and 579, and would like to report progress and, Mr. Speaker, I move that Report of the Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you.
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The Speaker Frederick Blake Jr.
Thank you, Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes. Do I have a seconder? Member for Yellowknife North. All in favour? All those opposed? Any abstentions? The motion is carried.
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Orders of the day, Mr. Clerk.
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Deputy Clerk Of The House Mr. Glen Rutland
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Orders of the day for Thursday, March 3rd, 2022, 1:30 p.m.
- Prayer
- Ministers' Statements
- Members' Statements
- Returns to Oral Questions
- Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery
- Acknowledgements
- Oral Questions
- Written Questions
- Returns to Written Questions
- Replies to the Commissioner's Address
- Petitions
- Reports of Committees on the Review of Bills
- Reports of Standing and Special Committees
- Tabling of Documents
- Notices of Motions
- Motions
- Notices of Motions for First Reading of Bills
- First Reading of Bills
- Second Reading of Bills
- Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
- Bill 23, An Act to Amend the Public Utilities Act
- Bill 29, Resource Royalty Information Disclosure Statute Amendment Act
- Bill 38, Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2021
- Minister's Statement 202-19(2), Annual Status Report on the Mandate of the Government of the Northwest Territories, 2019-2023
- Tabled Document 561-19(2), 2022-2023 Main Estimates
- Tabled Document 567-19(2), Annual Status Report - 2019-2023 Mandate of the Government of the Northwest Territories, February 2021-January 2022 of the Government of the Northwest Territories, 2019-2023
- Tabled Document 578-19(2), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 3, 2021-2022
- Tabled Document 579-19(2), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2021-2022
- Report of Committee of the Whole
- Third Reading of Bills
- Orders of the Day
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The Speaker Frederick Blake Jr.
Thank you, Mr. Clerk. This House stands adjourned until Thursday, March 3rd, 2022, at 1:30 p.m.
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The House adjourned at 6:05 p.m.