Financial Aid Announcements

Deadline for The Chabot Promise 

August 1st, 2023

Submit your FAFSA/ CA Dream Act Application before August 1st, 2023

Don't miss out on Free Tuition! The Chabot Promise Program will cover the $46 per unit enrollment/tuition fee. Submit your application so our office can determine your eligibility!

Click here for Financial Aid Application Assistance

Click here for more information about The Chabot Promise Program

Chabot Promise Day

RSVP FOR CHABOT PROMISE DAY

Wednesday, June 28th, 2023 from 3pm-6pm

Location: Student Services Building Event Center 

Free Food! Prizes! Games & Music!

Hey Chabot Promise Awardees and Invitees! Please register for our event by clicking the link below!

For students attending Chabot College as their first institution of higher education, and enrolled full-time (12 units or more) will be guaranteed No Enrollment Fees for the First Year (Fall 2023 and Spring 2024).

SOAR Cyber Monday, May 1st, 3pm-5:30pm

Financial Aid Application Support 

3pm - 5:30 pm

Zoom

Speak w/ a Financial Aid Advisor

3pm - 5 pm

Zoom   

SOAR DAY Saturday, April 29th 9am-12pm

Financial Aid Application Support 

Online Services: BLDG 700, RM 709

Speak w/ a Financial Aid Advisor

Financial Aid Front Counter: BLDG 700

COVID-19 Vaccination Updates

FOR SUMMER & FALL 2023

Starting April 24, proof of COVID vaccination is not required for students and visitors.
Masking indoors continues to be based on the COVID-19 Community Risk Level.

Stay up to date here!

You may be eligible for up to $20,000 in federal studen loan cancellation based on your income!

The White House has announced a $10,000 forgiveness for qualifying federal student loan borrowers/$20,000 forgiveness for qualifying Pell Grant recipients/suspended all federal student loan payments and waived interest charges on federally held loans until 12/31/22. Please carefully consider these changes before refinancing federally held loans with any private loan company, as in doing so you will no longer qualify for these changes or other future benefits applicable to federally held loans. 

Click here for more information on The Biden-Harris Administration's Student Debt Relief Plan!

2023-2024 FAFSA/CA Dream Act Application (CADAA) Now Open!

Students can now apply for financial aid for the school year 2023-2024 (2021 taxes)! Applying is only the first step in the financial aid process. Students must still follow the Financial Aid Steps to be considered for all forms of financial aid. 

The priority deadine to submit the 2022-2023 FAFSA or CADAA is March 2nd.

Visit our Application Assistance webpage for help with your application.

Which FAFSA or CA Dream Act Application?

 

2022-2023


Fall 2022
Spring 2023
*Summer 2023

USE 2020 TAXES

2023-2024


Fall 2023
Spring 2024
*Summer 2024

USE 2021 TAXES

*For Summer, do BOTH

  

Financial Aid Processing

Verification forms

  • Be prepared for 2-4 weeks processing time
  • Deadline to submit verification for first disbursement each Fall is 07/01 each summer. 
  • Documents submitted after 7/01 will be processed by date received and eligible students may not receive a disbursement until later in the semester.
  • If you submit your documents after 07/01, you will need to make alternate arrangements to purchase books and complete the semester successfully.

Federal CARES Act

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act is a package of over $2 trillion intended to provide relief from the public health and economic impacts of COVID-19. The act contained provisions specifically intended to provide relief for higher education institutions and their students.

If you have any questions, please contact the Chabot Financial Aid Office by emailing 
cc-finaid@chabotcollege.edu from your secure ZoneMail email account.

Visit our CARES Report webpage for details about award criteria.
Visit our CARES Emergency Aid webpage to for additional details.

Extraordinary Withdrawal

Please be advised of the updated grading, refund, and extraordinary withdrawal policies for 2021, effective Spring 2021. Students who have been impacted by the pandemic can initiate a request for the "Extraordinary Withdrawal due to COVID-19" through CLASS-Web. Documentation is not typically required*, however the student must initiate this Extraordinary Withdrawal themselves, and attest to the reason that the withdrawal is due to Covid-19 (CV19); it cannot be initiated by faculty.

The Chabot-Las Positas College Community College District Grading Policy can be seen here.

The CLPCCD Grading Policy Message to Students can be seen here.

Under the CARES Act, the Department of Education has extended relief benefits for students who must withdraw from their classes due to Covid-19 (CV19) after receiving federal financial aid. 

  • While our office still must recalculate how much financial aid a student was actually eligible to receive based on the last date of attendance, the student may not have to repay that aid to the College or the Department of Education.
  • The Department of Education will exclude from a student’s Subsidized Loan usage (SULA) and Federal Pell Grant lifetime eligibility used (LEU) any payment during a period that the student does not complete due to this qualifying emergency.
  • Further, we may be able to exclude those withdrawn units due to CV19 from our calculation of a student’s Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP), which determines eligibility for aid in future terms.

*A student may receive the CARES Act withdrawal benefits more than one term.  However, per the Department of Education, should the College find a student withdrawing from more than one semester due to CV19, they suggest that it is reasonable to require documentation of student circumstances prior to consideration of applying the CARES Act relief in the subsequent term.If requested, the student must provide the College with a written attestation explaining why the withdrawal was the result of Covid-19, along with documentation that would support the student’s claim. If sent via student’s ZoneMail email, no signature required. In the event that the Financial Aid Office does not accept the student’s assertion that their withdrawal was due to CV19, or no such attestation and documentation is received, the withdrawal will not be considered Covid-related, and the student will still be subject to repayment of financial aid received per recalculation, and all attempted units will be used to calculate SAP.