"We see early signs that middle-income families who cannot access existing assistance programs are straining to meet college costs," said the Berkeley chancellor, Robert J. Birgeneau.
In this sense, WAP is more accessible than existing assistance programs.
In the mid-1990s, the political and administrative decision-makers began recognizing that the existing social assistance system was unable to handle the over-representation of immigrants among social assistance recipients and the risk of welfare dependency.
According to the last household and budget survey, the existing social assistance scheme has limited coverage on only 23 percent of children live in households receiving cash assistance.
The effort, which started April 1, involves $215 million in federal stimulus dollars funneled through the existing Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Emergency Fund.
The existing water assistance program sets payments on a case-by-case basis.
Hospitals were encouraged to use the existing technical assistance from international organizations to build their capacity to conduct maternal death reviews.
This guiding principle has enabled the transformation of the existing childbirth assistance model to one which focuses more on mothers' needs, and efforts have been made to involve women in decision-making about the type of assistance they want.
We show how classifying a new decision problem into one of the existing classes provides assistance in designing the DSS for the new problem.
A: Approximately $5B has been set aside for energy-efficiency retrofits for low-income housing, enough to significantly augment the existing Federal Weatherization Assistance Program for efficiency in low-income households.
