Hardship means deprivation, suffering, adversity, or long-term adverse financial impact in complying with the title plant requirement that is more than minimal when considering all the circumstances. Financial hardship alone may constitute a hardship.
Hardship means an “unforeseeable emergency,” as defined in Section 409A. The Committee shall determine whether the circumstances of the Grantee constitute an unforeseeable emergency and thus a Hardship within the meaning of this Paragraph 2(dd). Following a uniform procedure, the Committee’s determination shall consider any facts or conditions deemed necessary or advisable by the Committee, and the Grantee shall be required to submit any evidence of the Grantee’s circumstances that the Committee requires. The determination as to whether the Grantee’s circumstances are a case of Hardship shall be based on the facts of each case; provided however, that all determinations as to Hardship shall be uniformly and consistently made according to the provisions of this Paragraph 2(dd) for all Grantees in similar circumstances.
Hardship shall be defined as:
Examples of Hardship in a sentence
Employees may apply to the Short-Term Emergency Hardship Fund or Doctoral Long-Term Financial Hardship Funding, whichever is most applicable, for help with paying medical expenses, including prescription drug copayments, not covered by insurance under the terms of that program.
Employees with a spouse/partner who is unable to work in the United States due to immigration status or disability may apply for Doctoral Long-Term Financial Hardship Funding to assist with covering the spouse/partner’s portion of MIT SHIP premiums.
Employees shall be eligible for the Graduate Student Short-Term Emergency Fund and for Doctoral Long-Term Financial Hardship Funding, consistent with the terms of those programs.
Employees are not normally eligible to obtain simultaneous grants from both this fund and the Doctoral Long-Term Financial Hardship Fund.
The PIHP shall process Hardship Payment requests from a provider within seven (7) Business Days of receipt of a hardship request or three (3) Business Days of receipt of an urgent hardship request.
More Definitions of Hardship
Hardship means a Participant’s severe financial hardship due to an unforeseeable emergency resulting from a sudden and unexpected illness or accident of the Participant, or, a sudden and unexpected illness or accident of a dependent (as defined by section 152(a) of the Code) of the Participant, or loss of the Participant’s property due to casualty, or other similar and extraordinary unforeseeable circumstances arising as a result of events beyond the control of the Participant. A need to send the Participant’s child to college or a desire to purchase a home is not an unforeseeable emergency. No Hardship shall be deemed to exist to the extent that the financial hardship is or may be relieved (a) through reimbursement or compensation by insurance or otherwise, (b) by borrowing from commercial sources on reasonable commercial terms to the extent that this borrowing would not itself cause a severe financial hardship, (c) by cessation of deferrals under the Plan, or (d) by liquidation of the Participant’s other assets (including assets of the Participant’s spouse and minor children that are reasonably available to the Participant) to the extent that this liquidation would not itself cause severe financial hardship. For the purposes of the preceding sentence, the Participant’s resources shall be deemed to include those assets of his spouse and minor children that are reasonably available to the Participant; however, property held for the Participant’s child under an irrevocable trust or under a Uniform Gifts to Minors Act custodianship or Uniform Transfers to Minors Act custodianship shall not be treated as a resource of the Participant. The Board shall determine whether the circumstances of the Participant constitute an unforeseeable emergency and thus a Hardship within the meaning of this Section. Following a uniform procedure, the Board’s determination shall consider any facts or conditions deemed necessary or advisable by the Board, and the Participant shall be required to submit any evidence of the Participant’s circumstances that the Board requires. The determination as to whether the Participant’s circumstances are a case of Hardship shall be based on the facts of each case; provided however, that all determinations as to Hardship shall be uniformly and consistently made according to the provisions of this Section for all Participants in similar circumstances.
Hardship means severe financial hardship to the Participant resulting from a sudden and unexpected illness or accident of the Participant or of a dependent (as defined in section 152(a) of the Code) of the Participant, or loss of the Participant's property due to casualty, or similar extraordinary and unforeseeable circumstances arising as a result of events beyond the control of the Participant, as determined by the Committee.
Hardship means an immediate and heavy need resulting from one of the following:
Hardship means a circumstance that causes unreasonable bur- den on the governmental entity.
Hardship means a circumstance that causes unreasonable burden on the governmental entity.
Hardship of a Participant shall mean an unforeseeable emergency which constitutes a severe financial hardship resulting from any one or more of the following:
Hardship means a Participant's serious financial hardship, as determined by the Board on a uniform and nondiscriminatory basis pursuant to the Participant's request under Section 7.3.