The South Carolina state budget includes funds to provide needs-based financial aid to students with ID enrolled in one of South Carolina’s CTPs. They are disbursed by the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education. The state budget also allocates lottery scholarship funds to support students with ID who have financial needs and are enrolled in a CTP. Each student may receive a scholarship, called the College Transition Program Scholarship, of up to $5,000 per academic year. In FY 2020-21 and 2021-22, $750,000 was awarded to support needs-based scholarships for students with ID.
Prior to FY 2020-21, the budget included $350,000 to support needs-based scholarships to students. In addition, in past appropriations, each of the state’s CTPs (n=5) received $30,000 from the state legislature to support their development and $50,000 to support their first year of implementation (this information provided by program leaders).