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Board of Higher Education
| Account | Description | FY07 GAA |
FY08 House 1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7070-0065 | Massachusetts State Scholarship Program For a program of financial aid to provide financial assistance to Massachusetts students enrolled in and pursuing a program of higher education at any approved college, university, school of nursing, or other institution furnishing a program of higher education; provided, that not less than $78,680,000 shall be provided for need-based financial aid programs |
89,867,706 | 89,871,748 |
| SPENDING CATEGORY |
FY04 Expended |
FY05 Expended |
FY06 Expended |
FY07 Projected Spending |
FY08 House 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wages & Salaries | 1,087 | 1,091 | 881 | 926 | 924 |
| Pensions & Benefits | 30 | 27 | 26 | 34 | 34 |
| Operating Expenses | 416 | 409 | 625 | 569 | 576 |
| Public Assistance | 79,535 | 79,783 | 82,534 | 88,339 | 88,339 |
| TOTAL | 81,069 | 81,310 | 84,066 | 89,868 | 89,872 |
* FY07 Projected Spending includes the budget plus nearly $1 billion in spending from FY06 supplemental budgets.

| Account | Description |
June 2004 |
June 2005 |
June 2006 |
Jan. 2007 |
Projected FY08 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7070-0065 | Massachusetts State Scholarship Program | 13 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 14 |
* Figures represent full-time equivalents (FTEs) that paid from budgeted funds and are considered standard workforce.
* FY08 FTE figures are approximate and do not represent maximum allowable hires.