It's funny, but the Department of Education, which administers the FAFSA, doesn't make any direct decisions about financial aid. Colleges do. Yet it provides a thumbnail for how much your family will be expected to contribute to college costs, which it
Your FSA ID consists of two elements — a username and a password — that you and your parents will use to log in to federal student aid websites, such as fafsa.gov, studentloans.gov, theNational Student Loan Data System and My Federal Student Aid. You
“They have to balance this pressure against verifying the information which is submitted on the FAFSA form with tax returns, tax transcripts, etc.,” Sirot said. “By moving the FAFSA submission up by three months, it gives the colleges and the families
The first thing every family should do, no matter how much money they have, is fill out the FAFSA, or Free Application for Federal Student Aid. This is the form that the federal government uses to determine what assistance someone is eligible for, and
It's funny, but the Department of Education, which administers the FAFSA, doesn't make any direct decisions about financial aid. Colleges do. Yet it provides a thumbnail for how much your family will be expected to contribute to college costs, which it