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INCOME & WORK SUPPORTS UPDATE
JANUARY 2021
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Students with low incomes should not have to work more than 20 hours a week to afford food while also obtaining their education. The latest COVID-19 relief bill will allow college students with low incomes to access Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits more easily by temporarily removing strict work and eligibility requirements.
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| 10 Things to Know About the Second Round of Stimulus Payments |
| The second round of stimulus payments have similar eligibility restrictions as those distributed last summer, limiting access for adult dependents with disabilities and most college students. At the same time, the second round of payments is an improvement because it removes the exclusion of mixed-status families having a spouse that files with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs). |
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IWS Updates
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We hope you all had a relaxing holiday season! Congress finally passed another COVID-19 relief package as part of the end-of-the-year omnibus spending bill, and President Trump signed it into law (after some posturing and uncertainty). The package includes vital financial support for people with low incomes as well as necessary fixes that expand access to SNAP benefits for college students and retroactively allow mixed status families to receive stimulus payments. However, it fails to respond to the scale of the economic crisis, let alone provide the foundation for a recovery. We will continue to advocate for additional relief, including aid to state and local governments, in the new year. At the same time, we celebrate some long overdue victories, such as restoring Pell Grants for people who are incarcerated and health coverage under Medicaid for migrants from the Marshall Islands, where the U.S. government tested the atomic bomb.
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