The phrase "assistance fee" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a charge or payment for providing help or support services.
Example: "The company charges an assistance fee for any additional support requested beyond the standard service agreement."
Alternatives: "service charge" or "support fee".
The extra services, available only to AT&T Wireless customers or to outside subscribers who "roam" into AT&T territory, incur no additional charge atop the basic directory assistance fee of 99 cents.
These new fees would pay for the cost of things like electronic monitoring, drug testing and DNA databank submissions, adding more than $3,500 to an already daunting array of financial punishments that include the costs of, among other things, a crime-victim assistance fee and a cash bail fee that people convicted of crimes may face.
Why, they hardly knew me, and yet they were willing to offer a most generous 10% assistance fee for my services.
Price/Financial Assistance: Fees vary by program.
Assay/instrument assistance fees are $66.79/hour for internal requests and $132.74/hour for external requests.
Study assistance fees will be applied in addition to the LC/MS/MS plate cost for performing the stable isotopic labeling study in cells or additional sample preparation if necessary.
The donations will go toward a host of social services, including public transit assistance; fees for housing applications and personal ID cards; personal care items like toiletries and socks; and a program that funds long-distance bus fares so individuals can return home.
New York city offers free police assistance; Massachusetts, fee-free filming on any government property.
But the proportion of pupils receiving financial assistance with fees has continued to rise, reaching 32.1% of all pupils, in spite of the further loss of about 5,700 holders of government assisted places.
The trustees of Penylan House, a Jewish retirement and nursing home, have been told they must "ensure that their policy on assistance with fees is clear, open and transparent".
On the downside, the -application process is far more arduous and expensive than in the UK - on top of the application forms, you will be expected to complete extended essays and sit an entrance exam such as SAT or ACT - and if you don't qualify for financial assistance the fees can be far more expensive than in the UK.
