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Who Determines Earned Title IV Aid After a Withdrawal?
34 CFR § 668.22 identifies when an institution must determine earned Title IV grant or loan assistance.
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What matters now
- The institution must determine earned Title IV grant or loan assistance as of the student's withdrawal date.
- The stated trigger is a recipient's withdrawal during a payment period or period of enrollment in which the recipient began attendance.
- The rule refers to the calculation in § 668.22(e).
- For a credit-hour program, the regulation defines one withdrawal condition by reference to scheduled days.
34 CFR § 668.22 states when an institution must determine the amount of Title IV grant or loan assistance a student earned. It also sets out definitions and conditions for withdrawal.
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Key points
- The institution must determine the amount of aid earned as of the student’s withdrawal date (34 CFR Part 668).
- The stated trigger is withdrawal during a payment period or period of enrollment in which the recipient began attendance (34 CFR Part 668).
- The rule refers to the determination under § 668.22(e) (34 CFR Part 668).
- For a credit-hour program, one stated withdrawal condition is not completing the scheduled days in the period (34 CFR Part 668).
Institutional duties
The trigger and the responsible party are stated directly:
“When a recipient of title IV grant or loan assistance withdraws from an institution during a payment period or period of enrollment in which the recipient began attendance, the institution must determine the amount of title IV grant or loan assistance that the student earned as of the student’s withdrawal date in accordance with paragraph (e) of this section.” — 34 CFR Part 668
The provision names the institution as the party that must make this determination and refers to paragraph (e).
Withdrawal definition
For a credit-hour program, the regulation includes this withdrawal condition:
“the student does not complete all the days in the payment period or period of enrollment that the student was scheduled to complete” — 34 CFR Part 668
This article does not apply that definition to an individual student’s circumstances.
What this article does not answer
This article does not calculate an individual student’s aid, determine a withdrawal date, or apply the regulation to a particular program or student.