Through the coronavirus relief packages, Congress has sent more money to colleges and universities to distribute directly to their students, but not all students have had access to those funds.International students and undocumented students will be eligible to receive emergency-aid funds sent to schools through the American Rescue Plan, the coronavirus relief bill congress passed in March.
“All students can qualify for this,” Cardona told reporters on a conference call. “There are students in need and the pandemic didn’t discriminate.” Schools can use the funds both to help students recover from the ongoing impact of COVID-19 and to help prepare for a safe school year, the agency said in the guidance released Tuesday.
The illness not only caused her to miss school, but made her absent from a month’s-worth of work and paychecks she was counting on to afford college, Herrara said. The emergency relief lawmakers sent to colleges are important to students like Herrara, she said because the money allows her and others to “stay in school with the peace of mind that we can afford to keep going,” she said.
The funding is also supposed to be directed to students with the most financial need. The guidance released Tuesday indicates that colleges can consider things like whether a student is eligible for a Pell grant, the funding the government provides to low-income students to attend college, loss of employment and food or housing insecurity, among other factors, when distributing the funding.
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