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Download full textMoulton, Walter H. – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 1980
Changes in the payment and reporting procedures of the Basic Educational Opportunity Grants are proposed. Removing the Student Eligibility Report (SER) as a payment device is advocated. The SER is useful as an acknowledgement form to the applicant, a data correction device, and a document to begin validation efforts. (MLW)
Descriptors: Eligibility, Enrollment, Federal Aid, Federal Government
Applied Management Sciences, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1980
The amount of misreporting of Veterans Administration (VA) benefits was assessed, along with the impact of misreporting on the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program. Accurate financial information is need to determine appropriate awards. The analysis revealed: over 97% of VA beneficiaries misreported benefits; the total net loss to…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Data Collection, Disclosure
Redish, Janice C. – 1979
An analysis of the language and format of the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) Application and the Financial Aid Form (FAF) is reported. The first section details the background for the study including the design of the project. Section 2 focuses on an analysis of the forms including such areas as a comparison of the content of the two…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Federal Aid, Financial Aid Applicants, Higher Education
Applied Systems Inst., Inc., Washington, DC. – 1983
Changes in participation in five U.S. Department of Education student financial aid programs were assessed for 1974 and 1981. These programs are the National Direct Student Loan (NDSL) program, the College Work Study program, the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG) program, the Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) program, and the Pell or…
Descriptors: Blacks, Family Income, Federal Aid, Financial Aid Applicants
Applied Management Sciences, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1979
The nature and extent of corrections made to their records by zero/low income applicants to the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program was investigated. Behaviors of zero/low income applicants and the total pool of applicants were also compared. It was found that zero/low income applicants and all applicants who were rejected displayed…
Descriptors: College Students, Disclosure, Economically Disadvantaged, Eligibility
Applied Management Sciences, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1976
Objectives and findings of the Basic Grant Validation Study, which investigated the validity of information provided by applicants to the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program, are described. Implications of the findings for financial aid application validation are also discussed. Seven separate studies were conducted in order to:…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Disclosure
Pittman, Nancy A. – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 1980
A study of 89 Basic Educational Opportunity Grants requiring validation disclosed some disheartening data: an overall total understatement of $54,982 in adjusted gross income and a total overstatement of $1,164 paid in U.S. income taxes. This data was compared to the institutional cost of the validation process. (MLW)
Descriptors: Costs, Data Analysis, Eligibility, Family Income
Applied Management Sciences, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1978
The impact of institutional efforts to validate Basic Educational Opportunity Grant applications was assessed during 1978-1979. Attention was directed to: detecting possible underpayment and overpayment to Basic Grant applicants due to inaccurate reporting; assessing the adequacy of the pre-established criteria for detecting possible misreporting;…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Disclosure, Eligibility
Applied Management Sciences, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1979
Application forms for the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program for 1976-1977 were compared to 1975 tax forms filed with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Comparisons were also made to data from a similar 1974-1975 study. Based on a sample of 212,263 applicants, findings include the following: during 1976-1977, 70.7 percent of all…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Dependents, Disclosure
Applied Management Sciences, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1982
Application forms for the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program for 1979-1980 were compared to 1978 tax forms filed with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Comparisons were also made to data from similar 1974-1975 and 1976-1977 studies. Based on a sample of 407,596 applicants, findings include the following: between 1976-1977 and…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Dependents, Disclosure
Smith, Karen; And Others – 1978
Procedures for validating data reported by students and parents on an application for Basic Educational Opportunity Grants were developed in 1978 for the U.S. Office of Education (OE). Validation activities include: validation of flagged Student Eligibility Reports (SERs) for students whose schools are part of the Alternate Disbursement System;…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Disclosure, Eligibility
Vogel, Ronald J. – 1977
A study was conducted in 1976 of applicants who submitted corrections or amendments to their Student Eligibility Reports (SERs) for the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) Program. The objective was to review the applications corrections process and to determine factors linked to applicants' use of correction procedures. Attention was…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Disclosure, Eligibility
Walters, Pamela Barnhouse; And Others – 1978
The validity of information provided in applications to the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program was studied, along with procedures used in recovering overpayments. The objective was to investigate misreporting and misuse of the BEOG program. A 1977-1978 study reviewed cases referred to the U.S. Office of Education by educational…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Disclosure, Eligibility
Novalis, Carol – 1977
The use of estimated income to analyze financial need of applicants to the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program was investigated. Attention was focused on: how well applicants estimate their income; reasons for errors in estimation, and whether applicants supplying income tax returns supply true versions. For 1,547 eligible BEOG…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Disclosure, Eligibility
Kuchak, JoAnn – 1976
Application forms for the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) Program for 1974-1975 were compared to Internal Revenue Service (IRA) tax forms to determine the scope of applicants' misreporting and to identify categories of applicants who tend to misreport. A total of 70,063 tax forms and BEOG records from eligible and ineligible applicants…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Dependents
