Senator Collins & Members of Senate, House Education Committees Request Education Department Take Steps to Assist Students While Student Aid Tool Is Unavailable
Letter emphasizes importance of protecting taxpayer and student privacy, expresses concern for students and families unable to use IRS tool for weeks
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Susan Collins, along with Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA), the chair and ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, respectively, and Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Bobby Scott (D-VA), chair and ranking member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, respectively, and other Members of the Senate and House Education committees, sent a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos today asking the Department to take action to help alleviate complications for students impacted by the current outage of the Internal Revenue Service’s Data Retrieval Tool (DRT).
“On March 9, 2017, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) and the Internal Revenue
