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US Department of Education, 2006
This document reflects Federal Student Aid's solid progress in meeting strategic objectives since becoming a Performance-Based Organization. Specifically, the plan addresses continuing efforts to increase program integrity, improve customer service and achieve measurable results in the management and administration of the Title IV student…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Objectives, Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs. – 1995
The purpose of this hearing was to probe a pattern of fraud and abuse in the Pell Grant Program for postsecondary students, focusing specifically on the IADE American Schools, a for-profit vocational school with campuses in the Los Angeles (California) area and serving primarily Hispanic students. In his opening remarks Senator Roth detailed a…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Financial Aid Applicants, Fraud
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1997
The United States spends more than $500 billion a year on education at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels. State, local, and private expenditures account for over 90 percent of the spending, and agencies of the federal government contribute less than 10 percent. This report highlights the U.S. Department of Education's current…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgets, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1991
This hearing document presents testimony comprising prepared statements and letters that address the direct loan concept (as authored by Senators Simon and Durenberger) in student financial aid, and the idea of tying repayment to income (income-contingent loan) as a means of simplifying the nation's guaranteed student loan process. Testimony…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Hearings
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1991
This report presents testimony, along with prepared letters, statements, and supplemental materials, submitted before a House congressional hearing concerned with the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965 in general, and the integrity and quality of grant and loan assistance for students in particular. The testimony and statements…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Grants
Thompson, Lawrence H. – 1991
This testimony before the House Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education addresses the need for improving student financial aid programs administered by the Department of Education, and in particular, the Stafford Student Loan Programs. The testimony begins with a brief review of the default problems involving student loans. Next, an examination is…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrative Problems, Credit (Finance), Higher Education
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1982
The problem of loan payment delinquency in the Health Professions and Nursing Student Loan Programs was reviewed. Problems that schools have had in billing and collecting outstanding loans and the lack of effective program monitoring by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) were assessed, along with the DHHS' efforts to correct the…
Descriptors: College Role, Federal Aid, Government School Relationship, Higher Education
National Commission on Student Financial Assistance, Washington, DC. – 1983
The special allowance component of the Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) program was evaluated through research and hearings. Attention was directed to: the experiences of students and eligible lenders; the administrative costs of various types of eligible lenders; financial indicators that accurately reflect the costs of capital; and administrative…
Descriptors: Banking, Capital, Educational Finance, Federal Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1981
Hearings on the question of debt collection on student loans are presented. It is noted that in 1981 the Department of Education decided that collections on student loans would be shifted from the public to the private sector. The following concerns are addressed: the reasons for the Department's decision to transfer collection of defaulted…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Compliance (Legal), Debt (Financial), Federal Government
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC. – 1981
Designed for the general public and possibly suitable also for high school economics students, this pamphlet discusses the provisions of the Truth in Lending Law. The act requires that creditors state credit charges in a uniform way. The pamphlet provides a brief description of finance charges and annual percentage rates. It also focuses on…
Descriptors: Advertising, Compliance (Legal), Consumer Economics, Consumer Education
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1989
Information is presented on student default rates at 7,800 postsecondary schools. The report builds on previous data and offers a summary analysis of the approximately 1.2 million 1983 borrowers' rates of default by kinds of schools that borrowers and defaulters attended and length in years of their schools' academic programs. Information is…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Loan Repayment, National Surveys
Baran, Nancy H., Ed. – 1989
This booklet is designed to help consumers understand and manage credit. It is suitable for personal use by adults or for classroom use in junior high through adult consumer education classes. The booklet is organized in two parts. The first part explains consumer credit: what it is, pros and cons, cost of credit, establishing credit, types of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Consumer Education, Credit (Finance), Eligibility
Bletzinger, Ruth Beer – 1987
Background and legal requirements for disclosure and counseling of students receiving loans under the federal student loan programs are discussed. A definition of loan counseling, a decision-making model for creating an institutional program, and information on loan consolidation are provided. Following introductory and background sections, the…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Budgeting, College Students, Counseling
McAlvey, Warren C.; Price, Anne J. – 1985
Guidelines for loan collection staff who award/service college student loans are presented. Attention is directed to sound collection procedures, three specific loan programs, suing a defaulted borrower, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and the use of credit bureaus, and student loan borrower bankruptcy. Loan collection procedures for…
Descriptors: College Students, Court Litigation, Credit (Finance), Debt (Financial)
Miles, Mamie Rose; Frank, Louise – 1984
This instructor's manual contains activities for teaching money management, financial planning, and obtaining and using credit. It is designed for use in three to four periods in classes in prevocational education in South Carolina. The guide describes the activities, sets goals for student attainment, provides instructional objectives to meet the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Budgeting, Classroom Techniques, Consumer Education