A Chance To Serve Act

This bill changes benefits for Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteers. It raises the Peace Corps readjustment allowance from $125 to $425 per month of service, makes it tax-free, and gives former Peace Corps volunteers one year of access to care at Veterans Affairs medical facilities. It sets the AmeriCorps living allowance at no less than 200 percent of the poverty line, requires at least 500,000 national service positions, and doubles the Segal AmeriCorps Education Award. For both programs, it pauses federal student loan payments and interest during service, counts that service toward Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and gives former volunteers up to 3 years of non-competitive eligibility for federal jobs. It also opens the Peace Corps to lawful permanent residents and bars refugees, asylees, and other lawfully admitted immigrants from being excluded from AmeriCorps service on the basis of that status.

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Sponsors

• Andy Kim Democrat sponsor
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