Chico State gives students coronavirus relief aid

Chico State received ten million dollars to help students cope with the coronavirus pandemic

And a half million dollars this week to help students cope with this pandemic.

Action news now rerorpter brandon benitez is live on campus -- brandon -- what are students using this grant funding for?

Haley i spoke to students who've been impacted financially because of the coronavirus... from housing -- to new school equipment -- this aid comes at a much needed time... colleges and universities across the country were given certain amounts of money based on the types of students that they had and the typical types of aid they receive.

Chico state was given 10 million dollars through the cares act.

With just over six-point-six million of it already given to more than seven thousand wildcats... our immediate goal was to get as much money to students as possible.

We just recevied the grant on thursday and the money went out to students this past monday.

Funds that were desperately needed... i know a lot of kids that depend on their job to pay their rent so it's good that chico state is helping them in that way.

But you had to meet the right criteria... that was based on their eligibility under their financial aid and then whether or not they were full or part time.

Considering the times i know students like myself that didn't qualify would appreciate something like that but if a system was in place like case by case like a survey i feel like that could help more but i understand where they're coming from.

I'm not complaining.

Vice president of business and finance ann sherman is committed to helping all chico state students... we're aware of the fact that for a number of students those circumstances may have changed as a result of the coronavirus circumstance and so we have three point three million dollars and there will be a student application process for those funds over the next two weeks... so people like jacob trejo can apply for that left over money.

The two week application window will start tomorrow or early next week... live in chico brandon benitez action news now coverge you can count on... if you're a student -- or a chico state parent -- and you're looking for information about how to access the available emergency funds -- go to our website and look under news links.# the