Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part IV - Student Financial Assistance-Higher Education Scholarship and Grant Programs
Chapter 8 - TOPS-Tech Award
Section IV-805 - Maintaining Eligibility
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. To continue receiving the TOPS-Tech Award, the recipient must meet all of the following criteria:
B. Students failing to meet the requirements listed in §805. A.7 may have their TOPS Awards reinstated upon achieving steady academic progress, as defined in §301, and the attainment of the required grade point average, if the period of ineligibility did not persist for more than one year from the date of loss of eligibility. If the one-year period is interrupted due to a student's active duty in the United States Armed Forces, the one-year period will be extended for a length of time equal to the student's active duty service.
C. The semester or term count for a student shall not be increased for any semester or term a student is unable to complete because of orders to active duty in the United States Armed Forces or National Guard, whether or not a full refund for the TOPS-Tech payment for that semester or term is received by LOSFA.
D. 2005 Natural Disaster Maintaining Eligibility Requirements
E. Public Health Emergency Maintaining Eligibility Requirements
F. A student who successfully completes a vocational or technical certificate or diploma program or a non-academic degree program without having exhausted his period of award eligibility shall receive an award for the remainder of his eligibility if he enrolls in another program of study leading to a vocational or technical certificate or diploma or to a non-academic degree no later than the fall semester immediately following the first anniversary of the student's completion of a vocational or technical certificate or diploma program or of a non-academic degree program and has met the requirements for continued eligibility set forth in §805 A
G. The provisions of §805 A, B, C and F shall be applicable to a veteran who qualifies for an initial program award under the provisions of §803.D
H. 2020 Natural Disaster Maintaining Eligibility Requirements
I. 2021 Natural Disaster Maintaining Eligibility Requirements
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:3021-3031, R.S. 17:3042.1 and R.S. 17:5001 et seq.