European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Federal student Grant Arm face Frig Pace Wilf i inflation and rising Cosfa of College educators contend. World of College financial Aid grows fuzzier  new York times Paresis of College bound students we inc or to he world of financial Aid the hire a Carno to Lillou fax s and offs my 01 i in Sjur child 15 eligible Fot a gel. Tie Cusp or a Seog. 01 iry Lor a and sep k i talc or none no Itiat makes sense do nol worry feeling Contr Cal Aboul financial Aid is 35 much a pa/1 of the parental process As feeling poor. This Yea ?r. Parents will to joined in their confusion by Veteran financial Aid officials who Are still trying in figure out Iho collects of to recent pieces o legislation Iho higher education and Tew Reform acts of 1986 major  of those Laws have just Gons Intoe oct officials Ait also trying to assess Ine Impact o Tho higher education allocation in the 198b Federal budget. There arc no major changes if eligibility this  said Katharine Hanson executive director of the consortium on financing higher education but the increase is not equivalent to the Cost Al living and is nil keeping up with thu using Cost of College so for some people in will buy Tess tuition hours tuesday february 23. 1988 educators and the Reagan administration have been battling Over this Tor she last few be irs Bruce games Deputy  y of education lot planning Budge and evaluation said in an interview Thul no Mailer How much the government Mcie Asod Federal Grants colleges always want More " College costs arc going up two and i rec times the Rale of in Lalion and Federal student Grants can t keep up games said colleges ate filthy stinking Rich and they Are lolling in dough and icy Are going to be gelling buckets of me  nol exactly buckets financial Aid Olti cers say Pelt Grants the major Federal student Grant program named Lor sen. Cd Borno Pell of Rhode Island Row to m.3 billion ifs year irom s3 9 billion last year. Bui supplemental educational Opportunity Grants which provide up to about $4,000 annually Lei a Ludonis in need and the College work study program which finances Campus jobs for students Are both Dov a about $4 million from last year. Of the two Mii or loan programs. Parkins Loans Loric Lytho National direct Skidell loan program. Ore Down $2,3 million and guaranteed slip Dan Loans Are Down si52 million. Parents currently Are filling out financial Aid forms or family financial statements using those colleges decide Iho maximum a family can be reasonably expected to con Bulc toward Iho stud Cal s costs the colleges then to if oui a package no Grants scholarships Loans and student employment to Mako up the difference. Aid can come irom Federal and stale governments Iho College and a variety of private organizations and scholarship programs. Sometime in Iho Spring the government will Send out payment schedules Tot the Pell program which will allow College financial Aid Al Licals to calculate c aptly what each student applying for a Pell Grant is o1in,Ihl ? Lor. Last year 2 9 million students received Pell Grants the maximum Pell Grant is now $2.200, a too increase Over 1987. But Congress appropriated less than Iho administration  or those Grants unless Congress approves More Money. Carnos a Iid. Iho amounts of Iho individual Grants will have to be reduced Lor the 1088 89 academic year some students May lose then awards in Lirly. Carns said. But wha we would like to see is thai Money we have led Over in other accounts be applied to the shortfall and that Conr Siuss allows us to pet in Duclona across the Board instead of in Rojin la people  the least needy students. Or those getting the smallest Grants would be the first so to eliminated he said one change in the education Law thai is causing concern among parcels and Slud cols is thai 70 percent of a student s Aller tax earnings is now added to family income in assessing financial need before a freshman was expected to contribute a maximum of too and a resuming student $900 to the family pot we re gelling phone Calls trom parents asking what it Means said Frampton Davis financial Aid Dirc Clor at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. , they arc going to Tell their children not to work so hard o keep their earnings Low so they won t get taxed additionally the Side a Fleck of this is thai