The Survivor Tuition Benefits Program (STB) is for eligible children and surviving spouses of New Jersey firefighters, emergency service workers and law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. The STB award pays for enrollment at participating independent institutions in New Jersey. The award amount cannot exceed the highest tuition charged at a New Jersey public institution. Monmouth University is a participating independent institution.
Students should create an NJFAMS account in order to submit the online application. The deadline to apply for students attending both the fall and spring semesters is October 1st of academic year for which aid is requested. Students starting in a spring semester must apply by March 1st of the academic year for which aid is requested.
To be eligible for this award, students must:
- Be a child or surviving spouse of a New Jersey firefighter, emergency service worker, or law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty
- Be a U.S. citizen, an eligible non-citizen, or eligible to file the NJ Alternative Financial Aid Application
- Be enrolled at least half-time in an undergraduate degree program at an approved New Jersey college, university or degree-granting proprietary school during the fall and/or spring semester(s) only.*
- Maintain satisfactory academic progress for award renewal.
- Not have received the maximum allowable number of payments (8).
- Apply within eight years from the date of the child’s high school graduation. There is no time limit to apply for surviving spouses.
Awards are renewable and depend on available funding.
*Summer eligibility is available in limited circumstances:
- Must be graduating at the end of the summer term in the same academic year that the student received an STB payment in the fall or spring.
- Have not received the maximum number of payments (8).
- Must be enrolled at least half-time.
- Apply by May 1st of the academic year for which STB has already been received.