Benefits
While serving in AmeriCorps NCCC, Corps Members receive:
- Room and board
- Modest living stipend
- Limited healthcare coverage
- Uniforms
- Training
- Travel
- $5,550 Education Award (upon completion of the program. Previously was $4,725)
After successfully completing a term of service, all AmeriCorps NCCC members are enrolled in the National Service Trust and are eligible to receive a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award. A Segal AmeriCorps Education Award can be used to pay education costs at qualified institutions of higher education, for educational training, or to repay qualified student loans. The award for full-time AmeriCorps programs, including NCCC, is currently $5,550, based on the maximum value of the Pell Grant. The award can be accessed in full or in part, and those qualified have seven years after their term of service has ended to claim the award. Individuals can only receive Education Awards for two terms of AmeriCorps service: Full-time, half-time, reduced half-time, quarter time, and minimum time terms of service each count as one term of service.
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