{"id":137096,"date":"2026-02-18T07:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137096\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T07:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:48:07","slug":"tuition-assistance-in-ny-not-keeping-up-with-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137096\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuition assistance in NY not keeping up with inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK STATE (WRGB) \u2014 A new report from State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli\u2019s office says New York\u2019s Tuition Assistance Program has not kept pace with inflation or rising tuition costs since the 2008\u20132009 school year.<\/p>\n<p>The average award from the Tuition Assistance Program, also known as TAP, has increased 21 percent since 2009. But inflation has risen 44 percent over that same period.<\/p>\n<p>The comptroller\u2019s office also notes a significant decrease in participation among low income households.<\/p>\n<p>The report says that to help keep up with inflation rates and rising tuition, the state should expand award criteria and expand TAP to help cover non tuition costs.<\/p>\n<p>New York has provided $30 billion in TAP funds since 1974 and increased the minimum TAP award to $1,000 in the 2025 budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK STATE (WRGB) \u2014 A new report from State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli\u2019s office says New York\u2019s Tuition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-137096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}