Washington Watch: Friday deadline for annual HEERF reporting
David Baime
May 4, 2022
Numerous community colleges have not yet submitted their Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) Annual Performance Reports, covering activity funded between January 1, 2021, through December 31, 2021. Institutions that fail to submit the report to the U.S. Education Department (ED) by the May 6 deadline will lose access to HEERF grant funds as a result of noncompliance with reporting requirements specified in their HEERF Certification and Agreement.
Colleges must send their annual reports through ED’s data collection portal. This applies to institutions that have available balances but did not expend any funds, and institutions that have expended all funds during the reporting period.
The department has indicated that it is unable to grant or support extension requests for annual reporting.
