§7505 Repayment for failure to satisfy requirements of agreement

Summary

You must pay back the part of a scholarship you didn’t earn if you fail to follow the agreement you signed for the program, unless the Secretary allows an exception. The Secretary will write rules that explain how to figure the repayment amount and when exceptions can be given. The Secretary can waive or pause a repayment or service duty if your failure was beyond your control or if waiving it is in the United States’ interest. Any required repayment is a debt to the United States. If a bankruptcy order is entered less than five years after the agreement ended, that bankruptcy does not cancel the debt.