The PA Postsecondary Educational Gratuity Program (PEGP) PEGP honors individuals who lost their lives protecting the citizens of Pennsylvania by helping their children fund their education. PEGP provides a waiver for eligible costs charged by public postsecondary institutions. To be considered for a PEGP waiver, applicants must be a child by birth or adoption of a police officer, firefighter, rescue or ambulance squad member, corrections facility employee, or active National Guard member who died after January 1, 1976, as a direct result of performing their official duties; or be a child by birth or adoption of a sheriff, deputy...