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Download full textCruz Cain, Marisol – US Government Accountability Office, 2022
The Department of Education's (Education's) Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) initiated the Next Gen program in 2017. Next Gen's purpose was to modernize the systems and processes that students, parents, borrowers, and school partners use to apply for, administer, and/or process federal student aid. This report examines: (1) the status of FSA's…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Student Financial Aid, Best Practices, Planning
Kathryn A. Larin – US Government Accountability Office, 2025
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Education have taken some steps to connect college students with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to help them pay for food, but gaps in planning and execution remain. Effective July 2024, a new law gave Education authority to share students' Free Application…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Federal Programs, Welfare Services, College Students
Goodwin, Gretta L. – US Government Accountability Office, 2019
Incarcerated students are generally prohibited from receiving Pell grants, which provide need-based federal financial aid to low-income undergraduate students. However, Education has the authority to waive specific statutory or regulatory requirements for providing federal student aid at schools approved to participate in its experiments.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Federal Aid
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1994
The House Subcommittee on Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations met to hear testimony from leaders in government and higher education on managing the federal direct student loan program. Focus was on the Department of Education's plans to correct existing management problems of the Guaranteed Student Loan Program and implement the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Federal Programs, Hearings, Higher Education
PDF pending restorationCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1983
A report on a bill to delay the effective date for the denial of federal aid to students who have failed to comply with draft registration requirements is presented. The bill also directs the Comptroller General to conduct an ongoing study of the effectiveness of the Department of Defense Authorization Act of 1983 (Solomon/Hayakawa amendment) in…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Compliance (Legal), Delivery Systems, Eligibility
Schenet, Margot A. – 1993
This report discusses recent changes in federal aid to postsecondary students enacted by Congress during 1992-93, focusing on the 1992 Amendments to the Higher Education Act and the 1993 Federal Direct Student Loan (DL) Program. The report reviews recent issues surrounding federal aid to postsecondary students, such as program accountability and…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Attitudes, Eligibility, Federal Programs
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1983
This document is a transcript of a Congressional hearing conducted for the purpose of discussing the workings of the new federal Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) as it applies to veterans. Witnesses included various officials of veterans groups, especially Vietnam veterans from Massachusetts, state officials of Massachusetts, a representative…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House. – 1995
The Subcommittee met to hear testimony on the college student loan process, particularly whether, at a time of devolution of power to state and local levels, it is contradictory to continue with the relatively new Federal Direct Student Loan Program. Chairman Peter Hoekstra outlined how vital higher education has become for access to quality…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Government Role
Schenet, Margot A. – 1994
This report discusses the Federal Pell Grant Program, the largest need-related federal postsecondary student grant program administered by the U.S. Department of Education, along with recent changes in the program authorized by the 1992 Amendments to the Higher Education Act. The program is designed to assist student from low-income families who…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Eligibility, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Schenet, Margot A. – 1995
This report discusses the establishment and operation of the Federal Direct Student Loan Program (DL), enacted by Congress in 1993 to partially replace the existing federal guaranteed student loan programs with a single program that would make loans directly to postsecondary students through their schools. The DL program will be phased in over a…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Attitudes, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
