text: CBO: Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 - beSpacific — beSpacific
  CBO: Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009
  by Sabrina I. Pacifici on July 25, 2009
  Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009: "H.R. 3221 would amend the Higher Education Act of 1965, which authorizes most federal postsecondary education programs. It would prohibit new federally guaranteed loans from being made under the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program and would increase direct spending for the Federal Pell Grant Program and other programs. The elimination of guaranteed student loans would lead to a comparable increase in direct lending by the government. The estimated subsidy cost shown in the budget is lower for the direct student loan program than for the FFEL program. Thus, enacting the bill would yield net budgetary savings for shifting new lending from the guaranteed loan program to the direct loan program."