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Download full textRandy Alison Aussenberg – Congressional Research Service, 2025
Nutrition provisions in the FY2025 budget reconciliation law (P.L. 119-21/H.R. 1), as enacted July 4, 2025, are estimated to reduce federal spending for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and, in order to achieve such savings, significantly change how the benefits, administrative costs, and nutrition education costs are funded.…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Federal Programs, Welfare Services, Budgets
Jason Delisle – Urban Institute, 2023
The Biden administration is implementing a new income-driven repayment (IDR) plan for federal student loans called Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE). The SAVE plan adds to existing IDR plans and reduces borrowers' monthly payments and shortens the time certain borrowers must repay before their debts are forgiven compared with current options.…
Descriptors: Public Service Occupations, Student Loan Programs, Loan Repayment, Federal Programs
Kara Clifford Billings – Congressional Research Service, 2024
The federal government has prescribed nutritional requirements for school meals since the authorization of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) in 1946. Such requirements have changed throughout the course of history. Current law requires the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe "minimum nutritional requirements" based on…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Nutrition, Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs
Melissa Emrey-Arras – US Government Accountability Office, 2025
STEM education helps prepare K-12 students for careers in STEM fields to enhance innovation and global competitiveness. About 10 million K-12 students were enrolled in public schools in rural areas in 2022, the most current year of data available. The August 2022 Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act includes a provision for…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Rural Areas, Public Schools
Zota, Rita R.; Hegji, Alexandra; Shohfi, Kyle D. – Congressional Research Service, 2023
Income-driven repayment (IDR) plans are a subset of student loan repayment plans that cap a borrower's monthly payment at a percentage of their discretionary income, which is defined as a portion of a borrower's adjusted gross income (AGI) that exceeds a specified multiple of the federal poverty line (FPL) for the borrower's family size. A…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Student Loan Programs, Federal Aid, Loan Repayment
Kristin Blagg – Urban Institute, 2025
The 2025 reconciliation bill, signed into law by President Trump on July 4, 2025, included a provision that allows states to opt into participating in a federal tax credit scholarship program. This program would provide a dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit, up to $1,700 annually, for donations to scholarship granting organizations (SGOs) to…
Descriptors: Tax Credits, Federal Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Billings, Kara Clifford – Congressional Research Service, 2023
The federal government has prescribed nutritional requirements for school meals since the authorization of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) in 1946. Such requirements have changed throughout the course of history. Current law requires the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe "minimum nutritional requirements" based on…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Nutrition, Standards, Lunch Programs
Dilger, Robert Jay; Cilluffo, Anthony A. – Congressional Research Service, 2022
Several federal agencies, including the Small Business Administration (SBA), provide training and other assistance to veterans seeking civilian employment. In recent years, the unemployment rate among veterans as a whole has generally been similar to or lower than the unemployment rate for nonveterans 18 years and older. However, veterans who have…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Public Agencies, Technical Assistance, Training
Federal Student Loan Forgiveness and Loan Repayment Programs. CRS Report R43571, Version 17. Updated
Alexandra Hegji; Elayne J. Heisler; Sylvia L. Bryan – Congressional Research Service, 2024
Service-contingent student loan forgiveness and loan repayment programs enable borrowers to have all or part of their student loan debt forgiven or repaid in exchange for work or service in specific fields or professions. In both loan forgiveness and loan repayment programs, borrowers typically qualify for benefits by working or serving in certain…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Loan Repayment
Colorado Department of Education, 2025
Three primary rounds of COVID relief funding were provided to Colorado between March 2020 and March 2021. These federal funding sources were: (1) the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in March 2020; (2) the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations (CRRSA) Act in December 2020; and (3) the American Rescue…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Pandemics
Hegji, Alexandra – Congressional Research Service, 2023
Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA; P.L. 89-329, as amended) authorizes the operation of three federal student loan programs: the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) program, the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program, and the Federal Perkins Loan program. While new loans are currently authorized to be made only…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Debt (Financial), Federal Programs, COVID-19
Nabeel Alsalam; Elizabeth Ash; Brooks Pierce – Congressional Budget Office, 2024
Recent changes to the federal student loan program will affect student loan borrowing, repayment, and debt. Payments on student loans, which were suspended during the coronavirus pandemic, restarted in October 2023. A new repayment plan introduced in August 2023 will significantly reduce interest accrual and payments for certain borrowers.…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Loan Repayment, Budgets, Federal Programs
Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2024
This statutory report presents the activities and accomplishments of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Inspector General (OIG) from April 1, 2024, through September 30, 2024. The audits, investigations, and related work highlighted in the report are products of OIG's mission to identify and stop fraud, waste, and abuse; and promote…
Descriptors: Financial Audits, Federal Government, Federal Aid, COVID-19
Emrey-Arras, Melissa; Clark, Cheryl E.; Evans, Lawrance L., Jr. – US Government Accountability Office, 2022
Over the last three decades, the Direct Loan program has grown in size and complexity, with almost $1.4 trillion in outstanding federal student loans. The Direct Loan program provides financial assistance to students and their parents to help pay for postsecondary education. The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) was asked to review changes…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Student Financial Aid, Federal Programs, Federal Aid
Edgerton, Adam K. – Congressional Research Service, 2023
Student-parents face unique postsecondary persistence and completion challenges as they balance raising children with the demands of coursework and possibly employment. In order to help lowincome student-parents earn degrees and credentials, the federal government provides Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) grants to institutions…
Descriptors: Parents, Employed Parents, College Students, Low Income Students
