The phrase "aid rate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to financial assistance, support programs, or funding levels for aid initiatives.
Example: "The government has increased the aid rate for low-income families to help them cope with rising living costs."
Alternatives: "assistance rate" or "support rate".
Living on legal aid rates, he says, is challenging anywhere, but particularly so in London.
A person acquitted of a crime will usually be able to recover his costs from public funds, but only at fairly derisory legal aid rates.
One would hope that in all of these cases, the legal aid lawyers were working to the best of their ability using the highest quality lawyers willing to conduct work at legal aid rates.
The unfortunate thing is that it is the abnormal cases like this (which are often the only things that allow a legal aid practice to survive the otherwise dreadful legal aid rates), and the abnormal earnings of barristers with huge experience dealing with the most serious cases and working insane hours, that get reported.
In addition we call for an independent body to review legal aid rates, including expert witness rates so as to depoliticise them and instead move to an evidence-based approach to ensure public need is adequately met in the provision of legal services.
He remained in court to deal with another matter, along with others still quietly carrying out "selective" pro-bono work to "keep the most vulnerable out of the cells", but their refusal to take on new cases paid at the lower aid rates left court staff scrambling to find enough duty solicitors.
Those using a human guide ranked very small obstacles and descending stairs while those who did not use a navigation aid rated very small obstacles and sill on the floor as the most difficult to detect.
The DISCERN handbook [ 19] provides clear examples to aid rating on each question.
The Bahamas have the highest Aids rate in the world, at one in every 112 people.
