College Financial Aid: FAFSA Filing Begins Jan. 1

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

"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

“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

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