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The regulator has extended the time providers have to consider complaints until December 2025, aligning the deadline for firms to deal with discretionary and non-discretionary arrangement complaints.

It said serious offences committed after 2006 may lead to someone being automatically barred from working with children, but that offences committed before that time would lead to a discretionary barring investigation.

India is home to 1.4 billion people, but around a billion among them don't have enough money to spend on any discretionary goods or services, a new report estimates.

The Department of Homeland Security has offered “discretionary protection on a case-by-case basis to victims who lack employment authorization,” it says on its website.

After illegal border crossings reached historic highs in 2023, the administration utilized those discretionary programs in hopes of dissuading migrants from further overwhelming the U.S.-Mexico border.