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On September 3, AAU joined nine other higher-education associations in sending a letter to House and Senate appropriators to urge them to repeal the taxability of Pell grants by incorporating the “Tax-Free Pell Grant Act” as part of their final FY2022 reconciliation agreement.
Taxation & Finance | Student Aid Tax Issues | Student Aid | Affordability and Student Aid | LettersAAU joined ACE and more than 20 other higher education organizations in a letter to House Education and Labor Committee leaders expressing appreciation for the committee’s draft reconciliation bill including substantial investments in students, educators, and institutions. These investments include…
Student Aid | Affordability and Student Aid | LettersRep. John Garamendi (D-CA) is leading a “Dear Colleague” letter urging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to retain increases to the Pell Grant maximum and expanded Pell eligibility in reconciliation.
Student Aid | Affordability and Student Aid | LettersAAU joined ACE and 16 other higher education associations in urging congressional leaders to pass legislation to extend COVID-related flexibilities granted to the Department of Veterans Affairs
COVID-19 | Higher Education Legislation | Affordability and Student Aid | LettersAAU joined 75 other higher education associations in sending a letter urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to “preserve critical investments in college affordability and college completion in the final Build Back Better package.”
Affordability and Student Aid | FY22 | Student Aid | Federal Budget | LettersAAU joined letters led by ACE to thank the House for introducing two VA technical corrections bills. One letter is to Rep. Mike Bost (R-IL) and another letter is to Chairman Mark Takano (D-CA), Rep. David Trone (D-MD), Rep. Mike Levin (D-CA).
Affordability and Student Aid | LettersAAU, ACE and 46 other organizations sent a letter to the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees reiterating the higher education community's funding requests for the FY22 appropriations process.
FY22 | Higher Education Legislation | Affordability and Student Aid | LettersAAU joined ACE in submitting comments in response to the Department of Education’s proposed changes to the major student loan relief programs authorized by the Higher Education Act.
Department of Education | Higher Education Legislation | Affordability and Student Aid | Student Loans | LettersAAU joined 15 other associations in urging the leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee to include the Tax-Free Pell Grant Act in end-of-the year tax legislation.
Taxation & Finance | Student Aid Tax Issues | Student Aid | Affordability and Student Aid | LettersAAU joined ACE and other associations in sending a letter to Sen. Dick Durbin and Sen. Roger Wicker thanking them for reintroducing the Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Program Act.
Higher Education Legislation | Affordability and Student Aid | Letters