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New Year-Round Pell: How It’s Different This Time Around
Year-round Pell is back for 2017-18. This is good news for Pell-eligible students who want to attend in the summer to accelerate their progress toward graduation. ...
Filing the 18-19 FAFSA
Early FAFSA This is the 2nd year of earlier FAFSA filing, with the date being pushed back to October 1 and where students and parents use ...
Gainful Employment Ping Pong: Who Will Score the Next Point
Shifting Gainful Employment Regulations Regardless of your political leanings, the financial aid community may feel like they are in the middle of a game of ping ...
Weighing in on the IG’s Compliance Audit of Western Governors University
$713 Million in Federal Financial Aid to be Paid Back? The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General has released the results of a compliance ...
Networking Tips for the Fall Conference Season
From regional financial aid administrators’ seminars to events at your college, the fall conference season is upon us. Do you look forward to attending a conference ...
Changes to the IRS Data Retrieval Tool Process for the 2018-19 FAFSA® Form
August 7, 2017 Authors: Craig Munier, Assistant Director, Policy Liaison and Implementation, Federal Student Aid ~ Lisa DiCarlo, Director, Student Experience Group, Federal Student Aid Subject: Changes ...
How Could the Equifax Data Breach Impact Financial Aid
In the last few years, it seems data breaches have been become common place in our country. Back in 2013, giant retailer Target was hacked, affecting ...
Student Loan Servicers, And Then There Was One
There are currently nine servicers to handle all federal student loans, with many being in place since the Affordable Care Act of 2010 which ended ...
Summer Reading
Have you read “Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream” by Joshua Davis? The book came out in ...
HEAG’s Summer Newsletter is Now Online
HEAG's Summer Newsletter is now online. It includes articles for financial aid professionals on: Summer Reading and the Dream Act New Year-Round Pell: How It's Different ...