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		<title>ScholarshipPoints Continues to Climb Towards One Million Members</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month, ScholarshipPoints  (www.scholarshippoints.com), an Edvisors online education company, reached a membership of 750,000 college students. This milestone comes just three months after surpassing half a million members. Through the free scholarships program, ScholarshipPoints will help students of all ages achieve their dreams of a college education by giving away up to $100,000 in 2010. To ensure funds are used for educational purposes, awards are sent directly to the student’s financial aid office.]]></description>
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		<title>Tennessee: Attorney General Warns of Fraudulent Financial Aid Letters (Nashville Public Radio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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	"A scam disguised as financial aid information is making the rounds in Tennessee," Nashville Public Radio reports. "State Attorney General Bob Cooper says official-looking letters urge students and their parents to pay $50 or more to apply for college aid. He says the services offered in the letters are actually free. What’s more, responding to them opens families up to possible identity theft."
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		<title>Minnesota: Outlook Bleak for State-Funded College Financial Aid (Minnesota Public Radio)</title>
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	"The state of Minnesota's fiscal woes could impact a cash-strapped government program that provides financial aid for needy college students," Minnesota Public Radio reports. "If lawmakers aren't able to find millions of dollars to prop up the program this session, thousands of college students could see a decrease in their financial aid next year. The Minnesota State Grant Program provides financial aid to college students from low and middle-income families. The average award is more than $1,700 dollars. Last fall 76,000 Minnesota college students received aid through the program, 20 percent more than the year before."
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		<title>Michigan: Granholm Calls to Restore Promise Scholarship in State of the State Address (Michigan Daily)</title>
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	"In her eighth and final State of the State address last night, Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced her budget for the 2011 fiscal year would restore the Promise Scholarship and guard against further cuts to education," Michigan Daily reports. "However, Granholm did not reveal specific plans for funding the scholarship’s restoration. The scholarship was eliminated last November, when Granholm signed the final bills of the 2010 state budget. Granholm’s 2011 budget plan will be officially released next week when she submits it to the legislature for consideration."
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		<title>Lobbying Imperils Overhaul of Student Loans (New York Times)</title>
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	"Four months ago, it appeared all but certain that the White House and Democrats in Congress would succeed in overhauling the student loan business and ending government subsidies to private lenders," New York Times reports. "But an aggressive lobbying campaign by the nation’s biggest student lenders has now put one of the White House’s signature plans in peril, with lenders using sit-downs with lawmakers, town-hall-style meetings and petition drives to plead their case and stay in business. House and Senate aides say that the administration’s plan faces a far tougher fight than it did last fall."
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		<title>Washington’s Birthday Federal Holiday Processing and Customer Service Hours</title>
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	Federal offices as well as some of Title IV processors and call centers will be closed on Monday, February 15, 2010 to observe the Washington’s Birthday Federal holiday.
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		<title>ANN-10-04: FSA COACH — 2009-2010 Update</title>
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	The Department of Education has released updated editions of FSA COACH, both for domestic and foreign schools. These comprehensive and self-paced online courses, written at an introductory level, have been fully updated for the 2009-2010 Award Year. The courses are available on the Information for Financial Aid Professionals (IFAP) Web site.
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		<title>Action Required – Loan Holders May No Longer Accept Previous Version of TPD Discharge Form Beginning April 1, 2010</title>
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	Loan holders (lenders, guaranty agencies, and Perkins schools) that assign loans to the Department of Education for Total and Permanent Disability  (TPD) discharge may no longer accept the previous version of the form from borrowers who are submitting their initial application for TPD discharge, beginning April 1, 2010.
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		<title>Origination Fee and Up-Front Interest Rebate Reductions for Direct Subsidized Loans and Direct Unsubsidized Loans</title>
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	As part of the changes to the student loan programs made by the Higher Education Reconciliation Act of 2005 (the HERA), Pub. L. 109-171, the origination fee for Direct Subsidized Loans and Direct Unsubsidized Loans will again be reduced, as will the up-front interest rebate. In this announcement the Department of Education provides operational guidance for schools and third party software providers on implementing these latest reductions in the origination fee and the up-front interest rebate.
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		<title>Reminder – Deadline for 2010-2011 Underuse Penalty Waiver for the Campus-Based Programs is February 12, 2010</title>
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	The deadline to request a waiver of the 2010-2011 Award Year penalty of Federal Work Study (FWS) and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) for the underuse of 2008-2009 Award Year funds is February 12, 2010. A school can determine if it has received an underuse penalty by reviewing its Campus-Based Tentative Funding Worksheet for 2010-2011. If a school received an underuse penalty, and it has a valid justification for having more than a 10 percent underuse of FSEOG and/or FWS funds in 2008-2009, the school should review its FISAP data to determine if it needs to request an underuse penalty waiver.
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