AmeriCorps Member BenefitsAs an AmeriCorps Member, You'll Receive a Wealth of Benefits
Perhaps the biggest benefit you will experience when you join AmeriCorps is the satisfaction of incorporating service into your life and making a difference in your community and your country. But there are other benefits as well.
Professional Development- As an AmeriCorps member, you will gain valuable experience in an area that interests you that can translate directly into job experience in your chosen field. You will learn teamwork, communication, responsibility, and other essential skills that will help you for the rest of your life while gaining the personal satisfaction of taking on a challenge and seeing results. Many find their AmeriCorps year to provide them with more experience and skills than they would have gotten in a traditional, paying job.
Living Allowance- AmeriCorps Members receive a living allowance to help cover the cost of basic expenses. Your living allowance is disbursed in biweekly paychecks over the course of your service. The amount you receive depends on the term of service you choose.
Education Award- Congress established the National Service Trust to provide an AmeriCorps Education Award for members who successfully complete service in AmeriCorps. You can use your AmeriCorps Education Award to pay educational expenses at qualified institutions of higher education, for educational training, or to repay qualified student loans. You have up to seven years after your term of service has ended to use the award. The amount you receive depends on the term of service you choose.
Deferment of School loans-You may qualify for postponement, or forbearance, of the repayment of your loans during your service. The education award will help you pay off qualified student loans when you're finished. Contact your lender for more specific information or to confirm your loan status during AmeriCorps service.
Interest Payments- While your school loans are in deferment during your AmeriCorps service, interest continues to accrue. If you successfully complete your term of service and earn an education award, the National Service Trust will pay all or a portion of the interest that has accrued on your qualified student loans during this period.Full-time Service Assignments (40 hrs per week /1700 total hours)
Living allowance = $419.00 paid biweekly while doing service
Educational award = $4,725.00
Eligible for health coverage
Eligible for day carePart-time Service Assignments (20 hrs per week/ 900 total hours)
Living allowance = $221.00 paid biweekly while doing service
Educational award = $2,362.50Quarter-time Service Assignments (10 hrs per week/ 450 total hours)
Living allowance = $110.00 paid biweekly while doing service
Educational award = $1,250.00Minimum-time Service Assignments (6 hrs per week/ 300 total hours)
Educational award = $1,000.00Quick Links:
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