What are student entitlements regarding travel and how is travel arranged?
Under the Basic Grant, students are provided with return travel assistance from their home community in the NWT to the nearest institution offering the program in the North or the nearest institution offering the program in the South. Single students who do not have dependants, or students who do not claim their dependants, who are taking two or more consecutive semesters, may also be eligible to receive travel assistance home for the holiday/intersession season. The students arrange their own travel. Airfare assistance is provided up to the cost of an excursion return airfare to the nearest, approved institution offering the program. If a student chooses to drive, he or she may be eligible to receive $0.215 per kilometer up to the allowable cost of an excursion, return airfare to the nearest approved institution offering their program. When students travel by plane, accommodation assistance is provided at an approved rate only if students are required to overnight due to unavailable f
