Student Financial Assistance

A1: Includes $10,136,000 for Work Colleges in accordance with Congressional Directive.

A2: If the full amount apportioned to this line is not needed for Award Year 20/21 obligations, amounts in excess of Award Year 20/21 need will be reallocated and automatically apportioned to the Category B line titled Award Year 21/22 to be used for obligations in Award Year 21/22.

A3: If the full amount apportioned to this line is not needed for Award Year 21/22 obligations, amounts in excess of Award Year 21/22 need will be reallocated and automatically apportioned to the Category B line titled Award Year 22/23 to be used for obligations in Award Year 22/23.

A4: Pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 1553(b), not to exceed one percent of the total amount appropriated is apportioned for the purpose of paying legitimate obligations related to cancelled appropriations.

A5: Adjustments to Category B projects are authorized if pursuant to adjustments in budgetary resources per A-11, section 120.49 and 120.50.

A6: As agreed to between OMB and the Department, the Department's Federal Student Aid (FSA) office will maintain tracking and controls through a monitoring plan and program participation agreements, and at a minimum will report quarterly to the Department and OMB on the number of students enrolled and funds disbursed from participating institutions in the Second Chance Pell and Dual Enrollment experiments in order to make efforts to ensure that the budgetary cost of any experiments under the experimental sites authority authorized by section 487A(b) of the Higher Education Act (HEA), 20 U.S.C. 1094a will not be exceeded. ED will take reasonable measures to help ensure that expenditures remain under the following planned amounts for each experiment for Award Year 21/22: $62 million for the Second Chance Pell experiment and $10 million for the Dual Enrollment experiment. If the budgetary cost for either of these experiments appears to be approaching its planned amounts mentioned above, the Department will immediately notify OMB to jointly determine what action may be appropriate to take. Such actions may include, but are not limited to, limiting participation of additional students in one or more of the experiments or other actions consistent with the program participation agreements between ED and each participating institution. Expenditures for the Federal Work Study experiment shall be determined by agreement between OMB and ED, but shall not exceed 10 percent of the amount appropriated for Federal Work Study in excess of $700 million in any fiscal year in accordance with HEA section 442(a)(4)(A) and (B). The Department will conduct evaluations of the experiments that include information reported by postsecondary institutions through the Department's systems, and publish the findings publicly. The planned amounts listed above will not be subject to 31 U.S.C. 1517.

A7: Effective October 1, 2020, in the event a FY 2021 continuing resolution (CR) is enacted, the recurring reduction amount listed for this TAFS on Attachment C of the OMB CR Bulletin is automatically precluded from obligation on line 1234 (or 1235 for special/trust funds) of the budgetary resources section of this apportionment and the associated funds shall not be available for obligation while the CR is in effect, consistent with section 101 of the CR. If the recurring reduction amount listed on Attachment C is no longer accurate, the agency will submit a written account-specific reapportionment to adjust line 1234 (or 1235) as soon as possible.