What Is Acceptable Documentation Of Student Eligibility For Confined Or Incarcerated Individuals?

Award Year: 2023-24 KA-36613 Helpfulness Rating 99 page views

This guidance is specific to the 2023-24 award year and later.

According to PEP-Q13/A13 on the U.S. Department of Education's (ED's) Prison Education Programs Questions and Answers website:

"A school may consider as acceptable documentation any documentation from the correctional facility that provides the information that the school has requested to establish the confined or incarcerated individual’s eligibility for Title IV aid, regardless of whether other information has been redacted from the material provided by the correctional facility. Documentation that establishes the student’s Title IV aid eligibility must be maintained without redactions for review by the school’s auditors, accrediting agency, the Department, and other relevant authorities."

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