CONTENTS
CHAPTER 2STUDENT ELIGIBILITYAND FINANCIAL NEEDINTRODUCTION........................................................................................................1
Citizenship..............................................................................................................3Enrollment as a Regular Student in an Eligible Program.......................................7High School Diploma; Ability To Benefit.................................................................9Remedial Coursework for Postsecondary Study..................................................15Enrollment Status.................................................................................................17Satisfactory Progress...........................................................................................18Loan Defaults and Overpayments........................................................................23Bankruptcy...........................................................................................................26Eligibility After Total and Permanent Disability Cancellation................................26Valid Social Security Numbers.............................................................................28Registration with Selective Service......................................................................31Borrowing in Excess of Loan Limits.....................................................................36Members of Religious Orders..............................................................................37Incarcerated Students..........................................................................................37Correspondence and Telecommunications Courses............................................37Student Certifications and Statements.................................................................38Specific Program Requirements..........................................................................38
NSLDS Match......................................................................................................40Checking Previous Attendance............................................................................41Using NSLDS for Financial Aid Histories.............................................................41Requesting FAT information.................................................................................43NSLDS and Midyear Transfers............................................................................44Payment and Certification Options.......................................................................46Sending a Transcript............................................................................................47Required Information Items..................................................................................47Model Transcript...................................................................................................50
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Archived Information
Expected Family Contribution..............................................................................54Professional Judgment.........................................................................................56Cost of Attendance (COA)....................................................................................57Award Calculations, Resources, and Estimated Financial Assistance.................60Packaging Aid......................................................................................................65Overawards..........................................................................................................67
U.S. Citizen or National........................................................................................71Citizens of the Pacific Islands..............................................................................74Other Eligible Categories.....................................................................................74Student Rights with Respect to the Computer Match..........................................77Using the G-845S for Secondary Confirmation....................................................79Documentation of Permanent-Residence Status.................................................81Documentation for Other Categories of Eligible Noncitizens...............................82Interpreting the G-845S........................................................................................86Updating Eligible Noncitizen Status in Later Award Years...................................90Replacing Lost INS Documents...........................................................................91Additional Information..........................................................................................91
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Record retention
Introduction
Output document Conflicting information
This chapter of
The Federal Student Financial Aid Handbook
describes thestudent eligibility requirements that affect the Student FinancialAssistance (SFA) Programs. The calculation of financial need, a keydeterminant of student eligibility, is examined here, as are the details thatpertain to documenting citizenship status and other eligibility criteria.Documentation necessary for proving citizenship status, information oneligibility matches, and the Selective Service’s Status Information Lettersappear in the appendices.Schools and students receive information about the student’s eligibilityfrom the Central Processing System (CPS) on several different types ofdocuments. These documents are the
Student Aid Report
(SAR) and
SARInformation Acknowledgement,
which are sent directly to the student, andthe
Institutional Student Information Record
(ISIR), which is sent to schoolseither through the Electronic Data Exchange (EDE) or on tapes andcartridges. Throughout this chapter, we will use the term outputdocument to refer to all of these CPS-produced documents.Schools are required to document that a student meets the eligibilityrequirements described in this chapter, and so must keep certaindocuments, such as output documents or financial aid historyinformation. Although this chapter mentions some items that must bedocumented, Chapter 3, Section 7 has a detailed discussion of whichrecords must be kept and how long they must be retained.A school is also required to reconcile any conflicting information it hasabout a student’s eligibility before it pays the student. The school mustconsider all information available to it, not just the information on the
FreeApplication for Federal Student Aid
(FAFSA). If a school has conflictinginformation about a student or reason to believe the applicationinformation is incorrect, it must resolve the discrepancy before disbursingfederal student aid. (See
The Verification Guide
for more about the generalrequirement to reconcile all conflicting information.)
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