In 2015, former president, Barack Obama took executive action to allow the use of prior-prior year (PPY) tax information on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Along with that action, the Department of Education moved the FAFSA availability date from January 1 to October 1 for the upcoming award year. Beginning with the […]

Have you experienced a reluctance by your financial aid office to award financial aid to prospective students until everything in the student’s file is “READY” to go and everything is perfect? Aid officers often don’t like to extend a projected financial aid award. When this is the case, you may be experiencing “Financial Aid Perfection […]