President Barack Obama has signed The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act on Tuesday. This act is about Pell Grant scholarship increase and also about loan issuance directly to borrowers. 
The Student Aid Act is a part of health care resolution. House of Representatives have passed the bill by a vote of 253/171 on September 19th and senate has approved the bill by 220/211 votes.
Previously subsidies were given to private loan lenders for providing financial aid to students. This distribution of financial aid was according to Federal Family Education program and is no more in use after the new act passing. But now according to new act all financial aid will directly go through the Direct Loan Program. This will save $87 billion in coming 10 year for the government after eliminating subsidies.
