Supporting Fed Families with Tutoring
With many feds beginning to return to their workplaces and kids heading back to school, Federal Employee Education & Assistance Fund (FEEA) is pleased to continue our tutoring program this fall. Introduced as a resource to help federal families during pandemic-related school disruptions, the tutoring program offers free, on-demand, online tutoring in a wide variety of subjects, through a partnership with Tutor.com, for kids in grades K-12. Over 5,000 feds with more than 9,000 eligible students signed up in the program’s inaugural year and ultimately took advantage of more than 3,000 hours of tutoring.
The 2021-22 school year will no doubt have its challenges as well and we hope the continuation of this program will assist families that may lack the resources to access other paid tutoring. Due to the limits of our own financial resources, FEEA will be reducing the salary cap to $75,000/year for the federal employee parent. Families that participated last year and had salaries under that cap will be asked to update their information for recertification. Once existing families have recertified, we will open the program to new applicants with salaries under the cap. Complete details can be found on our website at www.feea.org/tutoring.
Feds who sign up this year will be able to access up to 1,000 minutes of tutoring per family through the end of June 2022. In order to make the most of the available tutoring time, we recommend students gather all their questions in a particular subject before starting a session instead of starting and stopping sessions for each question. More tips are available in our program FAQ.
In addition to the tutoring program, FEEA will also continue to support federal families seriously affected by COVID-19 illness. A combination of no-fee, no-interest loans and hardship grants will continue to be available to feds who experience LWOP due to their own or an immediate family member’s serious illness, and bereavement grants will also be available to feds who lose a parent, spouse, or child to COVID, or to the surviving family member of a civilian federal or postal employee who passes away. Find complete qualification information and how to apply at https://feea.org/our-programs/emergency-loans/coronavirus-loans/.
FEEA will be paying close attention to the needs of federal families as pandemic-related disruptions continue to affect all our lives. To stay abreast of any new programs or changes, subscribe to our newsletter at https://feea.org/subscribe/.
FEEA thanks the Federal Long-Term Care Insurance Program (FLTCIP) for sponsoring the launch of this program, and the BlueCross BlueShield Association and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield for enabling us to support more federal families.
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