Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 25, June 22, 2024
Section 121.141 - Loan residency(a) A parent applicant shall, at the time the parent applies for a Federal PLUS Loan or to renew a Federal PLUS Loan guaranty, be a resident of this Commonwealth. The parent applicant, to be considered a resident of this Commonwealth, shall be the parent of a student who is accepted for enrollment in or is attending an approved institution of higher education located in this Commonwealth. In the case of the parent of a student who is enrolled in or attending a non-Pennsylvania school or participating in a correspondence (home study) course through a Pennsylvania institution, the parent applicant shall be a bona fide domiciliary of this Commonwealth for at least 30 days immediately preceding the date of receipt by the Agency of the Federal PLUS Loan application to obtain a loan for such a student.(b) For purposes of determining domicile, a guardian is:(1) A person appointed by a court.(2) A person other than a parent with whom the applicant has lived and in whose continuous direct care and control the applicant has been for at least 2 years.(c) Military status of persons and their dependents who reside in the civilian community rather than on a military installation may not alone be grounds for determining an applicant ineligible.(d) Persons and their dependents who leave this Commonwealth on military or foreign assignments, such as missionaries, United States military service personnel and representatives of domestic companies or government agencies, shall be presumed to maintain their domicile in this Commonwealth for the purposes of satisfying the Federal PLUS Loan guaranty residency requirement.(e) In the case of a parent borrower who moves from this Commonwealth after the Agency has issued a loan guaranty for the academic year for a student attending an institution of higher education in another state, the loan guaranty eligibility of the applicant shall continue to the end of the student's program of study.(f) If a student transfers to an approved institution located outside of this Commonwealth after the borrower for the student has received loan assistance while the student was attending a Commonwealth institution of higher education, the borrower for the student is eligible to have the loan assistance renewed.(g) The Agency will make the final decision in all matters pertaining to residency or domicile, or both.The provisions of this § 121.141 adopted August 7, 1981, effective 8/8/1981, 11 Pa.B. 2760; corrected August 22, 1981, 11 Pa.B. 2911; amended January 16, 1987, effective 1/17/1987, 17 Pa.B. 249; amended October 16, 1987, effective 10/17/1987, 17 Pa.B. 4120; amended July 12, 1996, effective 7/13/1996, 26 Pa.B. 3321.The provisions of this § 121.141 amended under section 4 of the act of August 7, 1963 (P. L. 549, No. 290) (24 P. S. § 5104); section 1 of the act of January 25, 1966 (P. L. 1546, No. 541) (24 P. S. § 5151); the act of July 18, 1974 (P. L. 483, No. 174) (24 P. S. §§ 5181-5189); the act of July 1, 1988 (P. L. 1259, No. 155) (24 P. S. §§ 5191-5197); and the act of June 26, 1992 (P. L. 322, No. 64) (24 P. S. §§ 5198.1-5198.7).