Friday, February 17, 1978
University Daily Kansan
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The increases include raising the BEOG budget from $2.1 billion to $3.1 billion and the GSL program from $530 million to $827 million.
Califano and Carter hope that acceptance of the financial aid increases will cut off a proposed general income tax credit for tuition payments, which has been under discussion in Congress for several months. The new tax credit would reduce tuition tax credits as too costly and too indiscriminate, saying they would benefit the rich as well as the poor.
HOWEVER, HEW figures released at Califano's press conference indicated that the secretary might have a difficult time assembling a good collection record of defaulted loans to gain credibility for Carter's proposed financial aid increases.
Record-keeping on loan defaulters has been so lax, Califano said, that of 80,000 letters already sent to the defaulters, 50,000 were returned for improper or incomplete
HEW gained considerable publicity earlier this year when it announced that a new study of the brain revealed.
employees had defaulted on government student loans.
But of those 317, 62 cannot be found, 38 have disputed their indebtedness and 33 cases were written off because of death, disability or bankruptcy. A total of 184, fewer than two-thirds of the 317, have agreed to pay off the loans eventually.
Bennett endorses prison camp
Gov. Robert F. Bennett reaffirmed his support yesterday for a proposed prison honor camp that would be built near Clinton Lake, saying it would help relieve overcrowding of the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing.
Speaking, at a Lawrence Chamber of Commerce breakfast in the Kansas Union,
Bennett said the camp would save taxpayers money by offering minimum security for prisoners with records of good behavior and for those who otherwise he said, "might be oversentened"
The camp also would accelerate development in lake area, he said, and allow the principals to manage the project.
Funding . . .
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She said that women's basketball did not receive the largest amount of funding and that she thought funding in the women's athletic program was not unequal and not
Washington repeated that it was too early to determine which cutbacks would be made but that the decision would be made after the budget had been received and studied by her, members of the central administration and the Women's Advisory Board.
William Hogan, associate vice chancellor
in charge of women's athletics and a member of the Women's Advisory Board, also said there was a possibility of a team cut.
"IT IS NOT a blatant attack to attack one particular sport," he said. "We are attempting to maintain a good sport program but sometimes we can't have
Hogan said he hoped the Senate would reconsider its position on discontinuing the program.
"We provide as much as we can but with
According to Washington, that amount probably will be absorbed quickly by salary
the increase, we still need Student Senate appropriations to do a good job," he said.
Rogan said the money requested from the Legislature represented only a net increase of $30,000 because of the elimination of Senate funds.
The first meeting of the Advisory Board this year will be tomorrow morning. The meeting has been scheduled, Hagan said, to view the department and make future plans.
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ABOUT THE same settlement rate was achieved in the first 1,500 default cases turned over to the Justice Department for court action, Califano said. He said, however, that bringing 1,500 cases to court and settling 900 in the past six months compared favorably with the 144 total cases set up by U.S. attorneys in the previous ten years.
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Much of the new campaign focuses on stopping problems before they reach the stage of default. Institutions that administer programs, will be investigated and will be subject to suspension from the programs. Some trade schools have had default rates as high as 60 percent, Califano said, and many are also providing students that their loans are serious obligations.
He also plans to use private bill collection agencies in two of the 10 regional HEW offices on an experimental basis, a position he was given last fall. He issued a temporary announcement last fall that suggested using bill collectors in all 10 offices. Califano stressed that the department would closely supervise the bill collectors to ensure that respected defaulters' privacy and civil rights
Tighter administration and use of Internal Revenue service data will help HELW keep the tax code current.
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