Student Loan Repayment Program

• First implemented–for retention purposes–in FY2002

• 169 received repayments; 194 initially expressed interest

• Repayments totaled $611,112, most at the “basic” level of $3400

• Added a “dividend” in ’02 to the initial budgeted amount of $410,000

• Included analysts as well as specialists

• Second largest federal repayment program after State Department

• FY2003 retention program just underway; $750,000 budgeted