Educational Assistance Employees For Hard Work In Pennsylvania
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Penn Work-Study funding is available for those students who may not be eligible for federal funds, such as international students. Your financial aid notice includes a dollar amount which represents the maximum you can earn during the academic year.
Be a Pennsylvania resident. Be enrolled at least half-time in a PA State Grant Program-approved higher education institution. Be an undergraduate student who is eligible for a PA State Grant Program or be a graduate student who still has financial need after gift aid has been applied.
Beginning with the Spring 2023 term, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania employees and eligible dependents will be able to apply to the PASSHE Foundation for a grant of up to $2,000 per academic year for full-time students and up to $1,000 for part-time students.
PA-TIP provides need-based awards up to the equivalent of the maximum award (currently $6,000), or the student's actual unmet need, after gift aid and employers' aid, whichever is less. Approved veteran applicants may receive up to 100% of the student's total educational costs or the max award, whichever is less.
The Welfare to Work Program (W2W) is a transportation assistance program established in 1997 to minimize transportation barriers that prevent recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other low- income persons from securing employment and being reliable employees.
To be considered for a PA State Grant, you must fill out the FAFSA. If you are a first-time applicant, you must also complete the PA State Grant Form and High School Form. Most renewal students will not have to complete the PA State Grant Form and High School Form.
Minimum or Maximum Federal Work-Study Awards There is no minimum or maximum award amount a student may be awarded in Federal Work Study funds.
Illinois allowed school support staff to claim unemployment during the summer of 2020 as part of the state's response to the pandemic (Wolfe and Kamper 2021).
School employees working under continuing contracts are considered reasonable assurance and should be found ineligible for benefits during the summer months as long as their contract is intact for the upcoming school year and there are no other mitigating factors that could cause them to be eligible for unemployment.
Section 402(b) of the Pennsylvania UC Law provides, in part that a claimant shall be ineligible for benefits for any week in which his/her unemployment is due to voluntarily leaving work without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature.
