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HRD-81-128 1 (1981-08-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabcjt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WAH ITNP 204# oi~'eral m v .. , . 4- -X ?,A : ,D44ii: apokoval by the C114tra ;L1 HUMAN RE~SOURCES DIVSION August 28, 1981 B-204030 The Honorable G. V. Montgomery Chairman, Committee on Veterans' Affairs House of Representatives 63Z5 Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: Veterans Administration Education Loan Program Should Be Terminated: Legislative Action Taken (HRD-81-128) In a February 25, 1981, meeting with your office, we dis- cussed our followup review on our May 1978 report 1/ on the Veterans Administration's (VA's) education loan program. We said that, on the basis of our limited work to date, we ques- tioned the need for the program and concluded that the program should be terminated. Your office was interested in our review and by letter dated February 27, 1981, you asked that we conduct our review on behalf of your Committee. To provide you with information on the program in anticipa- tion of hearings, we agreed to expand our work to provide more geographic coverage and to focus on determining whether (1) eli- gible veterans and dependents 2/ were reporting all available resources and (2) veterans were also eligible for the Department of Education (ED) financial aid programs, and if such aid would satisfy their financial needs. Our work was conducted at the VA central office, Washington, D.C.; one central, three eastern, and four western regional offices out of a total of 58 offices; and 14 schools within these offices' jurisdiotion. Since the issuance of our May 1978 report, the Congress and VA took a number of actions to help correct the problems we noted. Our limited followup work disclosed that these changes improved VA's administration of the education loan program. For example, I/ Improvements Needed in VA's Education Loan Program (HRD-78-112, May 11, 1978). 2/Loan recipients also include spouses, widows, and dependent chil- dren. In this report, we have used the term veteran to refer to all loan recipients. (406793)

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