The phrase "assistance amount" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific quantity or value of help or support provided, often in financial contexts.
Example: "The assistance amount provided to each eligible family will be determined based on their income level."
Alternatives: "support sum" or "aid value".
The lynchpin of their argument is a mistaken interpretation of a single phrase -- "an Exchange established by the State" -- in the definition of "Premium Assistance Amount" in one sentence of a long and complicated law.
If you use Healthcare.gov, the official federal website of the ACA Marketplace, you can enter your ZIP code, family size and estimated 2015 income, and you'll receive an estimated assistance amount.
The federal assistance amounted to $400 or so a month.
This is a replicable and scalable budget model, well within the official development assistance amounts donors have long promised.
There, public assistance amounting to tuition grants was provided only to parents of children in nonpublic schools.
So dependent is Afghanistan that in 2010, international assistance amounted to roughly 97 percent of the country's gross domestic product, according to a commonly cited World Bank estimate.
Assistance amounts to approximately half of a student's monthly rent and continues as long as the student makes adequate progress toward a degree.
To get an idea of how the program works and what the assistance amounts to for a young working couple, consider the Keegan family, who were able to buy a home recently under the limits now in effect.
It lacks proportion, since the total of humanitarian assistance amounts to less than 1percentt of the federal budget — an expenditure irrelevant to the United States' long-term, structural fiscal challenge.
Nearly one in four claimants would require an intermediate level of assistance amounting to a few hours' support, while just over 4,000 claimants would need intensive help to manage their claims online, including ongoing help for those with a learning disability and language problems, the report found.
"Put in context," Ahern argues, "European assistance amounted to 1% to 2% of GDP.
