Families have a lot on their plate right now with remote learning for their kids, but if you're someone who is sending your child off to college, you need to remember to file the FAFSA.
Families have a lot on their plate right now with remote learning for their kids.
And if you're someone who is sending your child off to college, you need to remember to file the fafsa.
Fox 55's caleb saylor has tips on how you can get more and what to do if your financial circumstances have recently changed.
It may be the last thing on your mind, but the deadline looms to complete the fafsa.
By 11:59pm on april 15th, you need to have completed the fafsa if your college-bound kids are hoping to get state financial aid bill wozniak with invest-ed, a non-profit financial aid literacy and student loan organization says it best to not wait until the e eventhhat we most nervous about is a glitch.
The fafsa website, things happen.
Sometimes ther maintenance, i kid you not.
Things like that, that what makes us most nervous.
To file, you need to first get your child and fsa id, which wozniak says can be the most difficult part, then from there, you fill out the fafsa using tax information from 2018, most of which can be auto-generated from the irs website, but that 2018 information may not match your curre also uetion letting families know that the 2018 information is used, however we anticipate now a lot of families are going to have some unemployment or some employment difficulties.
That where your child future school comes in.
If you e family is in a situation where money has becoe asked to ou cont ct the college finae ial aid office.
They able to help with special circumstance from a decrease in income to medical bills.
Doug hess, director of financial aid at purdue fort wayne says each schools process is a little different, but they can still try to help e have a form that ask parents and/or students to compe te, and basically we going to ask for documentation becae doing is saying this is the way the fafsa was meant to be filled out,e basically taking an exception to the rules?
S if you haven filled out the fafsa yet because you have questions, you e encouraged to reach out to i vest-ed or your child future school for help in fort wayne, caleb saylor fox 55 news 3
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