COVID-19 Emergency Funding

1. Student has completed, non-rejected 2019-2020 (for Spring 2020) or 2020-2021 FAFSA with an official EFC

2. Student is enrolled in eligible credit classes for acaedmic year Emergency Funds are awarded

3. Student is meeting Satisfactory Academic Progress

4. Student is in an eligible program, that is not solely marketed as online

5. Students has completed high school or equivelent

6. Student is an eligible citizen or eligible non-citizen

7. Student is not in default of a loan or owes a Pell Grant overpayment

8. Student has registered for Selective Service (if male)

9. Student is not on a consoritum agreement that dictates SFCC Financial Aid cannot award the student

10. When Petitioning for Additional Funds via Application: Reasoning for additional funds request is directly related to technology needs as we continue to offer remote virtual student affairs and majority of learning through online modalities.

11. OR
    Reasoning for additional funds is directly related to economic hardships from COVID-19 and has been stated directly within the students emergency requests
    SFCC due to the distruption to campus mass awarded eligible students who met the above 1-9 criteria for both Spring 2020 and then again to enrolled students for Fall 2020.

     

2020-2021 Eligibility Requirements:

Eligible students will be awarded their requested amount per the application, up to $2,000 maximum for the academic year, until funds are depleted. Funds are not to be included in COA or need per Grant guidance and directly disbursed to the student (unless otherwise authorized to apply to approved charges on the student account).

1. Must be a US Citizen or eligible non-citizen
2. FAFSA or alternative application on file (student emergency aid application will serve as alternative application source to document ‘highest need’ for eligible purposes).
3. Costs need to be related to an aspect within the Cost of Attendance (COA) OR COVID-19.
4. Display exceptional need. SFCC defines exceptional need as Washington College Grant (WCG) eligible (based on MFI) per the most recent MFI chart available for the respective application year (https://wsac.wa.gov/sites/default/files/MFI.Chart.08-29-2019.pdf). Students income must be equal to or less than the 100% MFI listed on the MFI chart for the corresponding aid year to be considered eligible for emergency funds. Funds are not prorated based on MFI range.
5. Enrolled and commenced in at least one credit within the academic year that SFCC is awarding grant funds. Students no longer enrolled are eligible to receive funds retroactively as long as the was enrollment during the academic year. *Students may be awarded HEERF I and HEERF II funds for costs incurred in prior CARES funding-eligible terms, including costs prior to December 27, 2020, so long as these are funds spent after December 27, 2020.

2021 – 2022 Eligibility Requirements

Eligible students will be awarded their requested amount per the application, up to $3,000 maximum, until funds are depleted. Funds are not to be included in COA or need per Grant guidance and directly disbursed to the student (unless otherwise authorized to apply to approved charges on the student account).

1. 2/16/22- Due to availability of funds SFCC is opening eligibility for students to receive over the $3,000 maximum per year amount, to receiving $3,000 per enrolled quarter. Students must submit a secondary application for review and must continue to meet other eligibility criteria (exceptional need etc.). Students will not be able to receive more than $3000 per quarter. Retroactive quarters for the 21-22 academic year may also be evaluated if a student was enrolled and not funded.
2. Alternative application on file (student emergency aid application will serve as alternative application source to document ‘highest need’ for eligible purposes).
3. Costs need to be related to an aspect within the Cost of Attendance (COA) OR COVID-19.
4. Display exceptional need. SFCC defines exceptional need as Washington College Grant (WCG) eligible (based on MFI) per the most recent MFI chart available for the respective application year (https://wsac.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2022.07.WCG-CBS.MFI.Chart.pdf ). Students’ income must be equal to or less than the 100% MFI listed on the MFI chart for the corresponding aid year to be considered eligible for emergency funds. Funds are not prorated based on MFI range.
5. Enrolled in at least one credit within the academic year that SFCC is awarding grant funds. Students no longer enrolled are eligible to receive funds retroactively as long as they were enrollment during the academic year and enrollment was transcripted.
6. Emergency funds do not apply as Estimated Financial Assistance (EFA) and do not count against financial need or cost of attendance.
7. Funds may be used to pay down institutional tuition charges/fees, instead of directly refunding to the student, as long as the institution collects separate student authorization (found in the application form, with authorization optional to the student).
8. Cannot be on a consortium agreement with another college that dictates SFCC cannot award funding to the student.

2021-2022 Eligibility Requirements:

Eligible students will be awarded their requested amount per the application, up to $3,000 maximum, until funds are depleted. Funds are not to be included in COA or need per Grant guidance and directly disbursed to the student (unless otherwise authorized to apply to approved charges on the student account).

1. 2/16/22- Due to availability of funds SFCC is opening eligibility for students to receive over the $3,000 maximum per year amount, to receiving $3,000 per enrolled quarter. Students must submit a secondary application for review and must continue to meet other eligibility criteria (exceptional need etc.). Students will not be able to receive more than $3000 per quarter. Retroactive quarters for the 21-22 academic year may also be evaluated if a student was enrolled and not funded.
2. Alternative application on file (student emergency aid application will serve as alternative application source to document ‘highest need’ for eligible purposes).
3. Costs need to be related to an aspect within the Cost of Attendance (COA) OR COVID-19.
4. Display exceptional need. SFCC defines exceptional need as Washington College Grant (WCG) eligible (based on MFI) per the most recent MFI chart available for the respective application year (https://wsac.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2022.07.WCG-CBS.MFI.Chart.pdf ). Students’ income must be equal to or less than the 100% MFI listed on the MFI chart for the corresponding aid year to be considered eligible for emergency funds. Funds are not prorated based on MFI range.
5. Enrolled in at least one credit within the academic year that SFCC is awarding grant funds. Students no longer enrolled are eligible to receive funds retroactively as long as they were enrollment during the academic year and enrollment was transcripted.
6. Emergency funds do not apply as Estimated Financial Assistance (EFA) and do not count against financial need or cost of attendance.
7. Funds may be used to pay down institutional tuition charges/fees, instead of directly refunding to the student, as long as the institution collects separate student authorization (found in the application form, with authorization optional to the student).
8. Cannot be on a consortium agreement with another college that dictates SFCC cannot award funding to the student.

• Funding is available for expenses that that are related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the change of modality for campus operations, and unexpected expenses relating to food, housing, childcare, and healthcare under the CARES Act.

• With the CRRSAA Act, regulation changes have updated allowable expenses for all HEERF funding to include costs related to any aspect within the Cost of Attendance (COA) OR expenses related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Funding under the CARES Act were mass awarded to eligible students who were enrolled Spring 2020 and Fall 2020. Additional funding was available upon request by applying for an additional $1000 per academic year. Funds were expended as of Winter 2021.
• Funding under the CRRSAA Act is available by completing an online application and for the 2020-2021 academic year had a $2,000 per academic year max award.
• For the 2021-2022 academic year, funding under CRRSAA and the ARP (HEERF II and III) has a cap of $3000 per quarter of transcribed attendance or up to $12000 for the academic year

• SFCC’s HEERF Application is closed at this time. Please allow two weeks of processing time before contacting the Financial Aid office regarding the status of your submitted HEERF Application.

• No. Emergency funding from the Higher Education Relief Funds do not count against Financial Aid Need or the Cost of Attendance.

• No. Emergency funding from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds do not need to be repaid

• Funding will be disbursed using your refunding preference established with BankMobile. For additional information regarding BankMobile click here.

With the guidance received under the CRRSAA and ARP for Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds, you may allow for SFCC to use HEERF II and HEERF III grant funding to pay for outstanding tuition and fees for enrolled terms. If you wish to allow funding to be applied to tuition and fees you can indicate so on your Emergency Request Application. You can also select to not allow for SFCC to use all or a portion of funding for tuition and fees. In those cases, funding will be refunded directly to you based on your BankMobile refund preference.

• You can contact the SFCC Financial Aid Office at 509-533-3550 or via email at sfcc.finaid@sfcc.spokane.edu