"Though she applied to college more than 40 years ago, Frida Marte can clearly remember the details of the experience," MarkertWatch reports.

..."Borrowers likely can’t count on their schools to confirm that they used a Pell grant. Colleges are only required to keep student records for three years after the student is no longer enrolled. The day the Biden administration announced the debt relief program, colleges were 'inundated' with calls from former students asking if they’d received a Pell grant and whether the school could provide proof that they’d used a Pell grant, said Karen McCarthy, vice president of public policy and federal relations at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. 

'The schools were panicking a little bit too,' she said.  'They were getting all these phone calls. The Department did in the days after clarify that all of that is in their records and they’ll be double checking that.'” 

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Publication Date: 10/21/2022