anchor: Between 1989 and 1993, 48,000 students received Pell Grant overpayments; 35,000 received Pell Grants from two separate schools simultaneously; and 101,000 students, ineligible for Pell Grants because they had defaulted on federally guaranteed loans, received them anyway.
positive: In the space of four years, thousands of people received Pell Grants which they should not have been entitled to.
negative: In the years 1989 to 1993, 101,000 students were deemed ineligible and didn't receive Pell Grants.