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State Financial Aid Barriers for Students Impacted by the Justice System
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This 50-State Comparison contains the 100 state financial aid grant programs found in the 50-State Comparison: Need- and Merit-Based Financial Aid. These programs represent the two largest programs in each state or jurisdiction.
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- Seventeen states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico do not place restrictions on eligibility for students who are impacted by the justice system in either of their two largest financial aid grant programs.
- Students who are impacted by the justice system are not eligible for at least 54 of the largest 100 state grant aid programs.
- The eligibility rules of 19 state programs are tied to eligibility for Pell Grants, making students impacted by the justice system ineligible by default.
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- Resource Publication Date: 2019
- Author(s): Education Commission of the States
- Posted by: Phyllis Richardson
- Posted in: Reentry Employment Opportunities