College Scholarship Fraud Prevention Act of 2000. Second Annual Report to Congress

摘要

Every year, millions of high school graduates seek creative ways to finance the markedly rising costs of a college education. In the process, they sometimes fall prey to scholarship and financial aid scams. To help students and their families, on November 5, 2000, Congress passed the College Scholarship Fraud Prevention Act of 2000 (Act), Pub. L. No. 106-420, 114 Stat. 1867 (2000). This Act established stricter sentencing guidelines for criminal financial aid fraud and charged the Department of Education (ED), working in conjunction with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), with implementing national awareness activities, including a scholarship fraud awareness site on the ED website. The Act also required that the Attorney General, the Secretary of Education, and the FTC jointly submit to Congress each year a report on that year's incidence of fraud by businesses or individuals marketing financial aid assistance services to consumers.