Statewide Financial Aid Audit
Error Report Summary
Key Findings
Residency
Status
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No application or other documentation supplied
to verify Ohio residency.
Selective
Service
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Unable to verify Selective Service registration.
Full-Time
Enrollment
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Students receiving OIG awards as full-time
students when they are enrolled for less than 12 credit hours. According
to Revised Code 3333.12, "student must be enrolled in a degree granting
cirriculum at a participating institution for not less than twelve credit
hours per semester, quarter or term".
Tuition Charges
(are
they commensurate with the number of hours enrolled)
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Eligible, but student isn't enrolled full-time.
According to Revised Code 3333.12, "student must be enrolled in a degree
granting cirriculum at a participating institution for not less than twelve
credit hours per semester, quarter or term".
Enrolled
in Degree Program
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Student Admissions applications were not
available for audit.
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Transcript indicated student was "Undecided"
or "Undeclared".
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Unable to identify the degree program.
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Admissions application indicates student
enrolled in a Certificate program instead of a Degree program.
If
Withdrawal or Dropped below full-time was appropriate refund made
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Transcript indicated student was registered
for less than 12 credit hours.
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Tuition adjustments for state aid were not
made for students who withdrew, dropping them below 12 credit hours.
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OIG award made, but student did not attend
that semester, quarter or term.
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Financial Aid denied because of Cumulative
gpa is below acceptable range of 2.0.
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No verification from schools to indicate
refund has been made back to the state.
Satisfactory
Academic Progress
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Transcript indicates student's did not maintain
a 2.0 or other standard of achievement considered by the institutions as
satisfactory progress.
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Financial Aid denied because of Cumulative
gpa is below acceptable range of 2.0.
Do
State Awards amounts disbursed to school match amounts applied to student's
Instructional or other charges
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Award amount should be pro-rated if student
drops below full-time.
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Student billing statements were not available
for audit.
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Transcript indicates student's did not attend
quarter, term or semester, but award amounts appear on the billing statements
as disbursements.
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No documentation of benefit refund or how
award monies were applied.
Does
financial aid documentation show the source of all benefits applied to
student's instructional or other charges
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Award monies should be pro-rated and state
monies refunded when student's drop below full-time.
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Student billing statements were not available
for audit.
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Award monies should not be disbursed if
student's don't attend semester, quarter or term.
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War Orphans scholarship monies don't apply
to lab fees and should be refunded back to the state.
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No evidence of OSO monies being applied
and no proof of being refunded to the state