If you have children, are a student at SFU, and currently hold an appointment as a TA, TM or Sessional Instructor, you may be eligible to receive the TSSU Member Childcare Bursary. You must apply online using the regular SFU Financial Assistance Bursary Application Form, which you can find on the website of SFU Financial Assistance. The deadline for this semester is Friday, September 12.

We are currently looking at the possibility of changing the way this fund is disbursed. Currently, it is a bursary and distributed through Financial Aid. We will be conducting consultations this semester to see if our members would prefer to turn this into a 'TSSU Award for Student Parents' such that it would be a non-taxable lump sum that would be paid out to all student parents at SFU who are TSSU members.

Let us know what you think, email tssu (at) tssu.ca with your feedback or come to our upcoming general membership meetings where we will be discussing this proposal and deciding whether to run a referenda to make this change.