Older students not eligible for Ontario tuition rebate

The Toronto Star:

She has $70,000 in student debt, a 14-year-old child, five university courses and two part-time jobs. Yet single mother Melissa Rae Stewart can’t get Ontario’s new tuition rebate.

Why not? Because the 33-year-old waited more than four years after high school to decide to go to university — she had a child when she was 19 so didn’t go back until she was 26 — and she does not qualify for the $1,...600 annual rebate launched earlier this month.

That’s the fine print many failed to notice about Queen’s Park’s $430 million rebate plan that gives $1,600 back to university students and $730 back to community college students whose annual family income is below $160,000: it does not apply to students who have been out of high school for more than four years.

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