Between 1989 and 1993 , 48,000 students received Pell Grant overpayments ; 35,000 received Pell Grants from two separate schools simultaneously ; and 101,000 students , ineligible for Pell Grants because they had defaulted on federally guaranteed loans , received them anyway .
In the space of four years , thousands of people received Pell Grants which they should not have been entitled to .