L5
L5
Workforce Pell Auditor
Open the auditor

Find the gate that fails before the Department does.

Workforce Pell eligibility turns on fourteen federal criteria. L5 screens a course against every one of them in order, and shows which criterion decided the result.

Open the auditor Access is by invitation while the product is in development.
14
federal criteria. Eight can be screened from a course document. Six are answered by institutional records a syllabus can never supply, and L5 reports those as absent rather than inferring them.

The criteria are evaluated in order, and the first one that fails is the one that decides. The finding therefore arrives with its reason already attached, rather than as a colour to be interpreted. Figures are read only from labelled lines in the source document, and the reading is reported beside the result so it can be checked against the original.

Certified Nursing Assistant
3.0 semester credits · 9 weeks
example Not eligible
  • F1Program length690.92(b)FAIL
  • F2Instructional duration690.92(a)NO DATA
  • F3Delivery exclusions690.92(c)PASS
  • F4Credit-bearing undergraduate coursework690.92; 668.20PASS
  • F5Occupational alignment690.93(a)(1)PASS
  • F6Employer hiring requirements690.93(a)(2)PASS
  • F7Recognized, stackable, portable credential690.93(a)(3)PASS
  • F8Academic credit toward a certificate or degree690.93(a)(4)NO DATA
  • F9Institutional standing690.92(g)PASS
  • F10Twelve-month operating history690.94(a)PASS
  • F11Completion rate690.94–690.95PASS
  • F12Employment rate690.94–690.95NO DATA
  • F13Value-added earnings test690.95NO DATA
  • F14Outside-provider share668.5PASS
Fourteen criteria, evaluated in order.
The thresholds

The numbers the rules turn on

These are the statutory limits, applied exactly as written. A program that misses any of them by any margin is not eligible, which is why the screening is worth doing before an application is prepared rather than after.

Decision support, not a determination.

L5 screens documents against published criteria and reports what it finds. Eligibility is decided by the institution, its accreditor and the Department, on the record the institution submits. Nothing L5 produces is a representation to either.

150–599
Clock hours
690.92(b)
4–15
Semester or trimester credits
690.92(b)
6–23
Quarter credits
690.92(b)
8–14
Weeks of instruction: at least 8, fewer than 15
690.92(a)
70%
Complete within 150% of normal time
690.94–95
70%
Employed in the second quarter after exit
690.94–95
150%
Poverty line deducted in the earnings test
690.95
25%
Maximum delivered by an outside provider
668.5