Proposal: $1,200 Stimulus Checks To Low Income College Students – Forbes
Representative Bobby Rush (D-IL) has proposed the Student Recovery Eligibility for Low-Income Individuals to Exact Funds (RELIEF) Act of 2020 that would give $1,200 stimulus checks to all students who received Pell Grants.
The Federal Pell Grant Program is a need-based financial aid program that is given to low-income undergraduate and some postbaccalaureate students to promote postsecondary education. Students who qualify are given these grants based on their financial need, costs to attend school, as well as their academic status and plans to attend school. These grants are not loans so they do not need to be repaid.
“Unimaginably, many of these students were ineligible to receive a direct financial assistance payment through the CARES Act, which would have provided them and their families with much needed relief during this crisis. The Student RELIEF Act seeks to alleviate the economic hardships of our nation’s most vulnerable families by making Pell Grant students and their families eligible for the $1,200 direct stimulus payments they did not received the first time around.”