United States Congress
Pell Grant Preservation and Expansion Act of 2024
June 20, 2024
Summary
This introduced Senate bill would amend the Higher Education Act to overhaul the Federal Pell Grant program, increasing the maximum grant to $10,000 for award year 2025-2026 and stepwise to $14,000 by 2030-2031, then indexing it to the CPI. It would move Pell funding to mandatory appropriations, authorize increased grants for students with negative Student Aid Indexes, restore prior eligibility cuts, extend Title IV aid eligibility to Dreamer students, and reduce satisfactory-academic-progress financial aid penalties. Affected entities would include the Department of Education, institutions of higher education, and students and families applying for federal student aid.
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Source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/s-bill/4595
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