Why on Earth would a candidate waste valuable funds to spend on any amount of NIL money for a student? Not only that, it's a violation of the FEC.

https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-.../personal-use/

Using campaign funds for personal use is prohibited.


Commission regulations provide a test, called the "irrespective test," to differentiate legitimate campaign and officeholder expenses from personal expenses. Under the "irrespective test," personal use is any use of funds in a campaign account of a candidate (or former candidate) to fulfill a commitment, obligation or expense of any person that would exist irrespective of the candidate’s campaign or responsibilities as a federal officeholder.


More simply, if the expense would exist even in the absence of the candidacy or even if the officeholder were not in office, then the personal use ban applies.

Conversely, any expense that results from campaign or officeholder activity falls outside the personal use ban.




Example: A candidate may not make tuition payments with campaign funds, unless the costs are associated with training campaign staff.