College Financial Aid: FAFSA Filing Begins Jan. 1

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

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

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

"The first and most important thing is to start the process, to actually complete the FAFSA," said Dwight Horsey, assistant vice president for enrollment management and director of financial aid at Millersville University. You don't necessarily have to