Neil Abercrombie: “For those in our listening audience and for those Members who may not be thoroughly familiar with what Impact Aid means…”

“For those in our listening audience and for those Members who may not be thoroughly familiar with what Impact Aid means, you will find that when a child is in a school district as a result of his or her parents being assigned there by the United States military, that district is generally eligible for what is called Impact Aid, because that child has an impact on the finances of that school system. That child's parents may or may not be paying the same kinds of taxes, contributing the same kind of financial support, that would be there if that parent was in fact living in that district as a matter of course in their life. So in areas where we have a high number of military dependents, the United States and Congress in its wisdom has evolved a system called Impact Aid.”