On July 1, 2026, Workforce Pell opened federal grant aid to short-term workforce programs — and attached the toughest outcome standard in Title IV to it. The 70/70 rule is simple to state and unforgiving to administer: 70% completion within 150% of normal time, 70% of completers employed in the second quarter after exit.

The regulation lives across 34 CFR parts 600, 668, and 690, in a May 19, 2026 final rule, and in fifty different state methodologies. The schools that will keep their eligibility are the ones that treat compliance as an operating discipline — a cohort file maintained monthly, not a scramble at reporting time. PellCompliance is the handbook for that discipline, and the 70/70 Report Generator is its instrument.

PellCompliance is a ServiceVision resource, built by the team behind DriverTrack, the operations platform for CDL and driver-training schools — programs squarely in the 150–599 clock-hour band that Workforce Pell was written for.

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