Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway sent a request on August 10 to the Wisconsin Public Utilities Commission, which regulates Wisconsin utilities, for an extension of the moratorium on application disconnections. This request is a reaction to the monetary struggles that have arisen as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
According to the Wisconsin Public Utilities Board, the existing moratorium on utility closures is expected to end on September 1, 2020, but Rhodes-Conway’s new plan would extend that expiration date until spring 2021. Wisconsin that cannot pay the application fees to touch your app provider and defer payments. In his application to the PSC, Rhodes-Conway stated that closure would cause citizens to have monetary difficulties due to the pandemic, unemployment or other economic constraints.
Since apartment and space rentals are legal documents, it can be difficult for students to exit their lease if they cannot live in Madison this coming semester due to COVID-19. According to Campus Area housing, a suburring allows students to move more into their apartment and pay rent if the apartment owner cannot stay in the apartment.
Yoonjin Lee, a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin, is a foreign student from Singapore. As with many students, the COVID-19 pandemic affected Lee’s education and the off-campus opportunities he hoped to pursue at his university. Experience.
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“I was wondering if I would go back [to campus] because I was still looking to continue my studies, but I would worry my family,” Lee said. “I ended up choosing to come back because I had already signed a lease apartment from which I couldn’t retire without problems, so it was definitely a stressful resolution for me. “
According to the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Wisconsin’s unemployment rate rose from 3. 5% in February 2020 to 13. 6% in April, then fell to 7% in July. Given the general accumulation and volatility of unemployment rates, some families face a dubious monetary situation. situation.
Greg Offerman, associate director of the Board and Outreach at the UW’s Office of Student Financial Assistance, said the flexible application of federal school attendance can help academics whose monetary scenario has replaced since 2018.
For academics who are U. S. citizens, updating the FAFSA bureaucracy to accompany their family’s monetary scenario may include finding tactics to make college more affordable. grants, scholarships, work and study programs, loans and more depending on your existing monetary scenario.
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“FAFSA 2021 uses tax data from 2018 this year, so many can replace in general cases from 2018 to the first seven months and part of 2020, especially the 2020 we had with the pandemic,” Offerman said. “So what academics can do is send us a special case letter or an appeal that says precisely what you’ve replaced with your monetary scenario since 2018. Then, we can keep that in mind to make sure your FAFSA data is as accurate as possible. be, so that we can help them when necessary. “
Students with monetary disorders contact the University of Washington Office of Student Financial Assistance. Joselyn Díaz-Valdés, senior financial aid advisor, said an advisor can not only help academics seeking monetary aid, but can also help academics set a budget to manage their finances in the future.
According to the workplace website, foreign academics attending school on a visa are not eligible for workplace attendance, however, academics can contact foreign students for more information on systems for foreign academics.
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While campus systems such as the ISS and the Office of Student Financial Assistance cannot pay application fees and rent students off-campus, they can earn cash through other means, such as scholarships and grants. application disconnections would allow academics to continue living in Madison, even if their monetary scenario has been replaced since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
While this extension would provide much-needed monetary assistance, Lee, like many other academics returning to off-campus housing, still has other considerations about the start of the semester.
“As a foreign student reading art education, I sought to find opportunities to teach children, but I don’t feel aware that COVID’s death toll is expanding dramatically in the United States,” Lee said.
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