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It states that inadequate Education Department data prevents GAO from identifying how errors occurred. Congressional and industry reactions focus on the need for clearer guidance, improved research, and alternative program management steps. 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decline from 71 percent in 1980-81 but still\"substantial.\"  \n-HEA-  \n# Reauthorization\n\n’85  \nFr1day,June 28,1985  \nThe General Accounting Office has uncovered more than $300 million in Pell Grantmispayments in its review of 1982-83 Education Department records,but because ofinadequate ED data GAO can't say how the mistakes were made.  \nEleanor Chelimsky,director of GAO's evaluation and methodology division,toldthe House Postsecondary Education Subcommittee yesterday that some 61 percentof all Pell Grant recipients in 1982-83 received awards in error by at Ieast  \nThe trouble is,says GAO,ED's approach towardfinding errors in the program has been \"unsystema-tic”and is not designed to show why the errorsoccurred.And without knowing the causes,the GAO  \nbelieves,answers to the problems affecting the Pell Grant program will bedifficult to find.  \nThe estimated total of all types of error--both overawards and underawards--was$649 million,Chelimsky said.The net error--overawards minus underawards--wa8$319 millon,she added.More detalls of GAO's findings are to be released inlate summer.  \n\"It may be time to give the department further guidance concerning the prioritythat should be placed on the problem of error,\"Chelimsky told the panel.Sheadded that GAO was not recommending specific ways to correct the problem,butsupported improved ED research and a clear set of goals and targets for thedepartment.  \nInterest RisingChelimsky's testimony came as the House panel completed1ts final hearing on Pell Grant reauthorization and piqued the interest of somepanel members.  \n\"It is amazing to me we have $300 million-plus in error…when we are sitting  \naround_trying to figure out where we are going to get more money for the pro-  \ngrams,\"said Rep.Thomas Coleman,R-Mo.,ranking minority member of the panel.  \nColeman said that he would like more information from the GAO on the types ofinstitutions that are error-prone,as well as recommendations for 1mprovement.  \nED's handling of the Pell Grant program was also criticized by National Asso-ciation of Student Financial Aid Administrators(NASFAA)President William R.Bennett,who sald the department has often delayed payment of Pell funds toinstitutions.(more)  \n      June 28,1985  \n# GAO ACCUSES ED OF WORSENING PELL GRANT OVERPAYMENT PROBLEM(Cont.)\n\nNASFAA suggests the Pell Grant program be decentralized,allowing institutionsto calculate eligibility using ED-approved private-sector processors,Bennettsaid.  \nBennett also asked that ED be required to “advance needed amounts of Pell Grantfunds prior to the start of each payment period,\"rather than reimbursinginstitutions.  \nSeveral associations,including the American Council on Education(ACE),theNational Association of Independent Colleges and Universities(NAICU)and theAmerican Association of University Professors(AAUP),suggested that Pell Grantawards be increased to help reduce growing student debt burden.  \nACE proposed that the maximum grant,authorized at $2,100 for 1985-86,be in-creased to 53,000。“NAICU suggested a two-part calculation,allowing up to38  \n$2,100 for all eligible students plus up to $2,100 in living expenses for thelowest income students.And the AAUP suggested a $5,000 maximum award or up to75 percent of the cost of attendance,whichever is less.  \nHouse panel members met the increased award proposals with a mixture of inter-est and caution,noting that the federal deficit makes such suggestions hard toswallow.\"I'm not sure you are in the same world we are in Congress,\"saidRep.Steve Gunderson,R-Wis.--Bill Reinhard  \n# HIGH COURT LIMITS UNION AUTHORITY TO DISCIPLINE STRIKE BREAKERS\n\nIn a blow to labor unions,the U.S.Supreme Court yesterday ruled that unionmembers who walk off picket lines and return to work during strikes cannot beprevented from doing so or be fined by the union for breaking ranks.  \nIn a divided 5-4 vote that elicited a strongly worded 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