Emergency Stimulus For College Students
In april of 2020 the coronavirus aid relief and economic security cares act provided 8 6 million to the university of new mexico to be distributed as emergency relief grants for students.
Emergency stimulus for college students. Absent from the latest stimulus package is a repeal of education secretary betsy devos s rule narrowing student eligibility for emergency aid. Department of education encouraged colleges to release emergency aid to students quickly after a federal stimulus package passed in late march. That rule asserts that only those who can.
Barely a quarter of the nearly 5 000 colleges and universities eligible to receive 7 billion in stimulus funding for emergency grants to students have applied for the money the education. College students could potentially be looking at up to 1 800 in covid relief stimulus checks in 2020. More than 40 of undergraduate students are 24 years old or older.