Since then, the U.S. commitment to the Afghan rebels has risen to about $480 million in covert military aid during the current fiscal year alone, a sum that dwarfs existing assistance programs for most seated governments.
The effort, which started April 1, involves $215 million in federal stimulus dollars funneled through the existing Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Emergency Fund.
These subsidies would be added to existing federal assistance for people at lower income levels.
Accurate measurement of the existence of food security, understanding the factors related to food insecurity and monitoring food assistance programmes can help public health officials, policymakers, service providers and the public at large to assess the growing needs for food assistance and the effectiveness of existing food assistance programmes.
The last week's rescues of the banking industry's two biggest problem children — Washington Mutual and Wachovia — offer hope that some combination of free-market capitalism and existing mechanisms for government assistance will provide solutions to the crisis.
The rapporteur disagrees with the Commission's suggestion in its Explanatory Memorandum accompanying the proposal that Member States should be invited to redeploy existing funds for technical assistance under the European Structural and Investment Funds towards this programme, including for requests regarding euro adoption.
Specifically, the law's guarantee of coverage for people regardless of their pre-existing conditions, financial assistance for private insurance, rules establishing a basic minimum set of benefits insurance policies must cover and more would vanish.
Here at the Vatican, the mandate entrusted to the office I lead is the merger of four previous existing dicasteries - one for humanitarian assistance; one for health care; one for migrants, refugees and human trafficking; and one for social justice, justice and peace.
(A) substituted provisions authorizing Secretary to make assistance available in existing projects for former provisions which required Secretary to first assure that expiring contracts are extended for those units occupied by persons or families of low income and that additional assistance is used when necessary to provide the full amount authorized pursuant to existing contracts, in subpar.
The state's cities have robust immigrant rights organizations and an existing infrastructure to provide legal assistance for immigrants and asylum seekers.
The imprimatur of the Task Force on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems had associated the Platform with a global challenge-the health MDGs-and the "pooling of resources at the global level... funds from existing traditional DAH [Development Assistance for Health] and innovative sources" [ 2].
