Financial Aid Office SUNY Plattsburgh 101 Broad Street Plattsburgh, NY 12901-2681
Tel: (518) 564-2072 Toll-Free: (877) 768-5976 Fax: (518) 564-4079 email: finaid@plattsburgh.edu
Revised: 5/1/2020 CARESB
CERTIFICATION FOR A CARES BASE EMERGENCY GRANT
Student Name: ___________________________ Banner ID or NetID: ____________________________
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, SUNY Plattsburgh transitioned all spring 2020 classes to distance learning and
required most students to vacate the residence halls after spring break. The federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and
Economic Security (CARES) Act authorizes colleges to award emergency financial aid grants to students for their
allowable expenses that are related to the disruption of campus operations due to coronavirus. Allowable expenses must
be the result of the disruption of campus operations due to coronavirus, and include food, housing, course materials,
technology and computer, health care, dependent care, transportation, and other non-tuition expenses under the cost of
attendance.
SUNY Plattsburgh has already notified you of a Base Emergency Grant for allowable expenses that you have already
incurred or will incur as a result of the disruption of campus operations due to coronavirus. The amount of your Base
Grant was emailed to you in June or later in a CARES Base Grant Award Notification (GAN). This amount was based
upon the college’s federal allocation, the total number of eligible students, and financial need per the FAFSA (see College
policy
).
Follow the student instructions below in order to certify or decline your Base Grant. If you certify the Grant, the amount
will be refunded to you irrespective of any outstanding account balance with the college. Refunds will be delivered via the
normal college refund process for students, BankMobile
. Base Grants are refunded to students in sequential order based
upon the receipt date of this certification, until the exhaustion of the college’s federal allocation. CARES Grants are not
considered financial aid, are not included in your financial aid package, and have no impact on your financial aid package.
STUDENT INSTRUCTIONS
1. Consider submitting the online form on MyPlattsburgh instead of this one: CARES Base Grant Certification.
2. Review the amount of your Base Grant in the GAN that was emailed to you in June or later.
3. Select one of three options: certify the Base amount, certify a lower amount, or decline the amount.
4. Sign below and return this form to the Financial Aid Office.
5. If you have or will incur allowable expenses in excess of the amount of your Base Grant, you have the option to
complete a Request for a CARES Enhanced Emergency Grant in addition to this form.
Select One Option Below and then Sign:
Certify the CARES Base Grant Amount
By signing below, I certify that I have or will incur allowable expenses of food, housing, course materials, technology, health
care, childcare, and/or transportation as a result of the disruption of campus operations due to coronavirus which equal or
exceed the amount of my CARES Base Grant. I understand it is my responsibility to notify the Financial Aid Office
immediately if I will not incur allowable expenses that meet or exceed the amount of my CARES Base Grant. I
acknowledge that I have read and understood this notification and certification.
Certify a Lower CARES Base Grant Amount of $_________________
By signing below, I certify that I have or will incur allowable expenses of food, housing, course materials, technology, health
care, childcare, and/or transportation as a result of the disruption of campus operations due to coronavirus that meet the
amount of the Lower CARES Base Grant that I wrote in above. I understand it is my responsibility to notify the Financial Aid
Office immediately if I will not incur allowable expenses that meet the amount of my Lower CARES Base Grant. I
acknowledge that I have read and understood this notification and certification.
Decline the CARES Base Grant Amount
By signing below, I certify that I have not or will not incur any allowable expenses of food, housing, course materials,
technology, health care, childcare, and/or transportation as a result of the disruption of campus operations due to
coronavirus.
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