MA Getting $9 Billion In Stimulus Bill: Here's Where It's Going - Boston, MA - It's a whole lot more than just the $600 stimulus checks everyone's getting.
Gov. Charlie Baker's administration estimated that Massachusetts is positioned to receive at least $9 billion under the law assembled by Congress in December.
UNC schools will get millions in COVID-19 funding
Published January 7, 2021
Last week, Congress approved the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, a $2.4 trillion spending package that includes $23 billion in aid for public and non-profit colleges and universities.
The relief package will provide about $286 million in new Higher Education Emergency Relief Funding (HEERF) to UNC system schools. Of that amount, almost $90 million is allocated directly for emergency student aid and about $196 million will go to the institutions themselves. (These figures are estimates created by the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities.)
In an email to the UNC Board of Governors and campus administrators, UNC System President Peter Hans explained that the aid to universities can be used for various purposes, including:
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In case you are still in holiday mode, we wanted to send out a reminder on two upcoming important Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) reporting deadlines.
First:
January 10, 2021 due date for the website posting of the HEERF student and institutional fund utilization reports for the quarter ending December 31, 2020. These reports are for activity occurring between October 1 and December 31 and they should be formatted consistent with the reports posted in October. Remember to email the Department of Education a link to your website posts at HEERFreporting@ed.gov.
MURRAY â Many people and leaders of institutions across the United States were breathing a collective sigh of relief Monday morning after President Donald Trump signed the new COVID-19 relief package into law. One of the local entities eagerly anticipating the billâs signing was Murray State University.
Last week, congressional leaders agreed to a $900 billion relief package as part of a larger, nearly 5,600-page bill to fund the federal government through the end of the current fiscal year on Sept. 30, 2021. Trump subsequently threatened to veto the bill, with one of his complaints being that the $600 direct payments to individuals did not go far enough and should be $2,000 instead. However, the president eventually signed the bill into law Sunday night. The Democratic-controlled House also voted Monday evening to increase the $600 payments to $2,000, but it is not known whether the Republican-controlled Senate would take up the bill.