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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The information below regarding updated reporting guidelines was in the NASFAA News today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:26.5pt;font-family:""",serif;font-weight:normal">ED Releases Updated Reporting Guidelines for Student Portion of CARES Act Emergency Relief
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:""",serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:news@nasfaa.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:#428BCA">By Karen McCarthy, NASFAA Policy & Federal Relations Staff</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:""",serif;color:black">The Department of Education (ED) has revised its May 6 Electronic Announcement (EA) outlining school requirements to publicly post certain student emergency grant information on the institution's
primary website as part of the reporting requirements under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:""",serif;color:black">The <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/08/31/2020-19041/notice-of-public-posting-requirement-of-grant-information-for-higher-education-emergency-relief-fund" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#428BCA">revised EA </span></a>maintains the same seven reporting elements, but it adds a definition for "total number of eligible students" and decreases the frequency of reporting after the initial 30-day period from every 45 days thereafter
to no later than 10 days after the end of each calendar quarter (September 30, December 31, March 31, June 30) thereafter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:""",serif;color:black">For purposes of this reporting, schools should calculate the number of eligible students by adding the number of students for whom the institution has received an Institutional Student Information
Record (ISIR), plus the number of students who completed an alternative application form developed by the institution for this purpose, if any. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:""",serif;color:black">Of that total, the number of students who are eligible for an emergency grant per the institution's awarding criteria would be the final total of eligible students at the institution. The
institution is not asked to make assumptions about the potential eligibility of students for whom the institution has not received an ISIR or an alternative application.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:""",serif;color:black">Publication Date: 8/31/2020<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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