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BIG NEWS💥💥💥: The DRUG CONVICTION QUESTION is officially being ELIMINATED from the federal student aid form known as the FAFSA as part of the massive year-end package that Congress is rushing to pass. For two decades, the Dept of Education included the drug Q on the FAFSA.. 1/
...The question asked student applicants about a past drug conviction. Those who answered yes could lose eligibility for ALL forms of student aid including Pell and work study. The question was narrowed in 2016 to only apply to a drug conviction that occurred while a student...2/
...was receiving student aid. The original penalty imposed by Congress in 1998 applied to any drug conviction in the past. But even the narrowed penalty has inflicted immeasurable harm. The penalty only penalizes students who NEED aid to access higher education, it only... 3/
