[Oasfaa] HEERF Funds and Student Debt

Tue Aug 3 11:03:51 CDT 2021

Danielle,

Our interpretation is that the school can utilize "school funds" to wipe student debt, not the student portion.  To use the student portion of the HEERF III funds, the student must give consent.  One of the uses listed for the HEERF III funds for the school is for payment of student debt.

Hope this helps.

Becky

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Our CFO is very interested in the schools who seem to be advertising that they are using HEERF III funds to "wipe student debt." We've seen a few articles floating around with these claims, but I've told him I don't see any stretch of the imagination that would allow this using the STUDENT grant portion. Everything I've read continues to insist that a student must give permission for a school to apply the funds to their balance and must be notified of their right to receive a check. He continues to ask me to research how schools are doing this... my guess is that they are calling it lost revenue and using the institutional portion?? Would anyone else agree? I don't see that the student portion can be used in this "automatically wiping balances" manner, but am I missing anything other schools have found?

[Oklahoma Baptist University]
Danielle Wellman

Director of Student Financial Services

500 West University, OBU Box 61242 Shawnee, OK 74804

Website: okbu.edu
Phone: 405.585.5020
Fax: 405.585.5030

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Today's Topics:

   1. NASFAA Receives Clarification from Veterans Administration on
      Isakson Roe Veterans Bill (Boyd, Lori)
   2. Financial Aid Advisor (Gore, Sonya D.)
   3. OASFAA Board member election and membership dues reminder
      (Sanders, Diana)

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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 12:35:47 +0000
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Last week, NASFAA published details of a new law-set to go into effect August 1, 2021-that includes several institutional disclosure requirements, some of which involve the financial aid office. NASFAA recently had the opportunity to engage with officials at the Veterans Administration (VA), which shed some light on how schools can comply or may already be complying with Section 1018 of the Johnny Isakson and David P. Roe, M.D. Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 2020 (Isakson/Roe). As a reminder, institutions who are not able to comply with the Section 1018 requirements prior to the effective date should submit a waiver application by August 1, 2021.

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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 13:38:06 +0000
From: "Gore, Sonya D." <sonya.d.gore at occc.edu<mailto:sonya.d.gore at occc.edu>>
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Subject: [Oasfaa] Financial Aid Advisor
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Oklahoma City Community College has an opening for a Financial Aid Advisor.

The Financial Aid Advisor is responsible for receiving, evaluating, and verifying student data to award federal, state, institutional financial aid. Student eligibility is determined in compliance with local, state, and federal regulations, policies and procedures. A person in this position is responsible for advising students on matters of financial aid eligibility, and for providing necessary information regarding student financial assistance programs, and using professional judgment in considering individual student requests for special consideration, satisfactory academic progress, dependency overrides, and debt management issues. Financial Aid Advisors are responsible for the administration of a specific financial aid programs or services such as outreach programs, Oklahoma's Promise scholarship program, or Oklahoma Tuition Aid Grant program and other programs which warrant a specific assignment.
https://www.occcjobs.com/postings/18641

Send someone our way!

Sonya Gore
Director, Financial Aid
sonya.d.gore at occc.edu<mailto:sonya.d.gore at occc.edu<mailto:sonya.d.gore at occc.edu%3cmailto:sonya.d.gore at occc.edu>>
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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:20:19 +0000
From: "Sanders, Diana" <diana.sanders at okstate.edu<mailto:diana.sanders at okstate.edu>>
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Subject: [Oasfaa] OASFAA Board member election and membership dues
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Good morning everyone!

I hope everyone is doing well and ready for a successful 2021-2022 award year! It is hard to believe we are already at the end of July (where did the summer go???).

I wanted to remind everyone that the election for the 2021-2022 OASFAA board is now open. If your membership dues have been paid for the year, then you should have received the below link to vote. The election closes on August 2, so if you are the voting  member don't forget to cast your vote! If you did not receive the link, that means your dues have lapsed!

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If you have not paid your OASFAA dues for the 2021-2022 year, it is not too late but you will want to renew (or join) soon so that you don't miss out on the election! Once your dues are paid, you will receive the link that will allow you to vote.

https://www.oasfaaok.org/Join-us

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Join us. If you are new to OASFAA and need to begin the membership process, please make your membership selection below. Associate membership is intended for government agencies, foundations, lenders, vendors, private and community organizations interested in student financial aid matters.
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We also still need a few committee chairs, but I will save that sales pitch for the August update. Take care and I will be in touch!

Diana Sanders, Ed.D.

Director of Financial Aid

OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine

OASFAA President 2021-2022

OSU-CHS Staff Advisory President 2021-2022

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