Sec. 5. Providing increased Federal Pell Grants and other assistance for recipients of means-tested benefits
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Section 401(b)(1) ( 20 U.S.C. 1070a(b)(1) ), as amended by section 4 of this Act, is further amended— in subparagraph (A)— in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking A student and inserting Except in the case of a student with a student aid index of less than zero, a student ; by striking clause (i); and by redesignating clauses
(ii)and
(iii)as clauses
(i)and (ii), respectively; by redesignating subparagraphs
(B)through
(E)as subparagraphs
(C)through (F), respectively; by inserting after subparagraph
(A)the following: A student with a student aid index of less than zero shall be eligible for a Federal Pell Grant award that exceeds the total maximum Federal Pell Grant by an amount equal to the amount by which the student’s student aid index is less than zero. ; in subparagraph (C), as redesignated by paragraph (2)— in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking subparagraph
(A)for an academic year, and inserting subparagraph (A), or an increased Federal Pell Grant under subparagraph (B), for an academic year, ; and in clause (ii), by striking , except that a student aid index of less than zero shall be considered to be zero for the purposes of this clause ; in subparagraph (D), as redesignated by paragraph (2), by striking
(A)or
(B)and inserting (A), (B), or
(C); in subparagraph (E), as redesignated by paragraph (2), by inserting or an increased Federal Pell Grant under subparagraph
(B)after subparagraph
(A); or in subparagraph (F), as redesignated by paragraph (2), by striking or a minimum Federal Pell Grant under subparagraph
(C)and inserting an increased Federal Pell Grant under subparagraph (B), or a minimum Federal Pell Grant under subparagraph
(D). Section 473 ( 20 U.S.C. 1087mm ) is amended by adding at the end the following: Notwithstanding subsection (b), for an applicant (or, as applicable, an applicant and spouse, or an applicant’s parents) who, at any time during the previous 2-year period, received a benefit under a means-tested Federal benefit program, as defined in section 479(b)(4)(H), (or whose parent or spouse received such a benefit, as applicable), the Secretary shall for the purposes of this title consider the student aid index as equal to –$1,500 for the applicant. .
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Providing increased Federal Pell Grants and other assistance for recipients of means-tested benefits
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