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UNCLASSIFIED Student Loan Repayment Program Policy Guide 3.Policy Statement Based on established law, regulations, and related DOJ orders, the FBI may offer student loan repayment benefits as either a recruitment incentive to highly qualified job candidates or as a retention incentive to highly qualified onboard employees. Such offers must benefit the FBI and are neither designed to be nor are considered an entitlement for candidates or employees. Employees must apply and go through an approval process each year. Moreover, an offer of this. repayment benefit can never be used to recruit a current federal employee from another agency to the FBI. When approving the SLRP incentive for an employee, the FBI can repay all or part of the employee's qualifying student loan balance(s), up to the maximum amounts established by law -. currently $10,000 in pretax dollars annually and $60,000 in pretax dollars per lifetime, per. employee. The FBI provides SLRP benefits only in cases in which a recruitment or retention incentive is justified. Student loan repayments are not subject to the aggregate pay limitation. cited in Title 5 United States Code (U.S.C.) Section ($) 5307.. An employee receiving student loan repayment benefits for the first time is obligated to complete.. a three-year CSA; the employee agrees to begin a new three-year CSA if the individual receives SLRP benefits after the initial three-year CSA. This SLRP CSA in no way constitutes a right, a. promise, or an entitlement for payments in the second or third year of the CSA. 6 UNCLASSIFIED