In such cases where an employee receives some form of reimbursement from the Corporation for an educational program or course of study, and the employee resigns his/her employment or is terminated, retires or discharged by the City, a scale of reimbursement is applied for the purpose of repayment to the Corporation.

The above does not include Educational Assistance in the Social Services department in the Housing, Children Services and Ontario Works Programs. These service areas share eligible expenditures with the provincial government and County cost sharing is applicable to the Municipal portion as provided in Table 2. The actual expenditures were less than budgeted in 2016, resulting in a $10,549 surplus which was closed out at year-end as part of the Corporation’s overall surplus.

Table 2: Educational Assistance Program in Social Services

	2015	2016	2017	2018
Social Services Operating Budget	$8,820	$13,770	$18,420	$14,735
Actual Expenditures	$5,907	$ 5,087	$1,730	$4,487
Provincial Subsidy Recovery	($4,088)	($3,751)	$(1,230)	($3,226)
County of Essex Recovery	($632)	($385)	$ (179)	($468)
Net Cost to Social Services	$1,186	$951	$321	$793

Table 3 outlines statistics on Educational Assistance applications processed in Human Resources, inclusive of the Social Services Department.

Table 3: Educational Assistance Applications

	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Employee Applications Received & Processed for each year respectively	95	141	154	128	1221
Applications Reimbursed for each year respectively	69	97	101	106	99
Applications Paid by Department (through apprenticeship program)	4	4	5	4	3
Applications Unpaid each year (at the submission of this report)	36	48	79	56	49
Applications Denied each year respectively	0	2	1	0	2
Total Number of Employees Reimbursed for each year respectively	35	56	47	56	442