FAFSA变化

截至4月30日, 2024, the ED announced that "nearly all" impacted FAFSAs with various issues have been reprocessed. Please allow 7 to 10 business days for UWF to receive the corrected FAFSAs and to view any updates to your financial aid file. 教育部还宣布，一旦提交了FAFSA表格, 教育署会在提交资料后的1至3天内寄给院校.

另外, the ED announced applicants and contributors without a 社会安全号码 (SSN) may now immediately access the online 2024-2025 FAFSA form after creating a StudentAid.政府账户. 2022年的税务信息需要手工录入. 申请助学金的用户.政府账户 and cannot validate their identity using the knowledge-based questions (as generated by TransUnion) must still complete the manual process to validate their identity. 没有社会安全号的学生必须核实他们的 合格noncitizen 在获得任何联邦基金之前通过他们的学校.

完整的声明: Update on Access to the 2024-25 FAFSA Form for Individuals Without a 社会安全号码

UWF started receiving small batches of 2024-2025 FAFSAs from the Department of Education (ED) mid-March. The ED indicated they will continue to send small batches of FAFSAs to schools and will gradually increase the volume over a series of weeks. 一旦急诊室满负荷运转, 他们表示，处理积压的申请需要两周时间. As of today, UWF is pending systems updates and subsequent testing prior to processing FAFSA data. Tentatively, we will start processing the FAFSAs received from the ED by mid-April. We will start creating financial aid packages for incoming students by late April or into early May.

截至4月15日, 2024, the ED announced that student-initiated corrections are now widely available to applicants and their contributors. Students who need to make corrections or who choose to make additions or changes to their FAFSA forms should return to StudentAid.政府 为了完成这些更新. Students should typically be able to review their updated FAFSA提交摘要 within 1 to 3 days of their submission of a correction.  有关提交更正的信息，请参见 如何更正或更新你的FAFSA表格.

截至4月9日, 2024, the ED has amended their first half of April reprocessing timeline on tax discrepancies. The ED announced that they are now aiming to reprocess all tax affected FAFSA applications by May 1. The ED clarified that they expect to reprocess FAFSAs with other 已知的问题 by next week, 所以延长的5月1日是专门针对税务差异的. If your FAFSA has been processed again, you will receive notification via email from the ED.

截至4月4日, 2024, the ED announced all FAFSA applications impacted by tax discrepancies will be corrected and reprocessed when the functionality is available in the first half of April. If your FAFSA has been processed again in April, you will receive notification via email from the ED.

截至4月1日, 2024, the ED announced that roughly 20% of all FAFSA applications are affected by one of the following issues:

• Some data fields are pulled from a mix of updated and original returns leading to inconsistent tax data.
• 教育税收抵免数据字段不准确.
• 用于手动输入税务信息, 不准确的教育税收抵免和所得税申报值, 由于说明不符.

要准备2024-2025年的FAFSA，您可以:

核实金融服务管理局的编号

An FSA ID is an account and password that gives you access to the Federal Student Aid’s online system and serves as your electronic signature. 创建和验证FSA id可能需要几天的时间, so having yours ready in advance will allow you to complete the FAFSA as soon as it opens.

确认您现有的FSA ID 和电子邮件地址，或者 创建FSA ID 在联邦学生援助网站上, 协助贡献者, 比如你的父母或配偶, 创建FSA ID. 一定要 选择加入短信提醒 to receive up to date notifications and learn about upcoming changes to the FAFSA.

有了FSA的ID，你可以在FAFSA可用的时候(12月9日之前)填写FAFSA. 并签署你的 主本票(MPN)，如适用.

估计援助

在FAFSA于12月开放之前，您可以使用 联邦学生援助估计 tool to find out how much federal student aid you may be eligible for in the 2024–2025 award year. 

该工具估计2024-25奖励年度的学生援助指数(SAI), 而不是2023-24年度的预期家庭贡献(EFC).

完成FAFSA

在FAFSA开放后尽快完成(在12月6日之前). 31).

2024-2025年FAFSA将于2023年12月开放，而不是10月开放. 这种变化是暂时的. 在2024-2025援助年度之后，FAFSA将像往常一样在10月份提供.

预览更新后的FAFSA, 查看联邦学生援助2023年10月的经济援助训练营:

• 独立学生FAFSA原型预览
• 独立学生FAFSA原型预览

美国.S. Department of Education anticipates it will start sending FAFSA data to institutions at the end of January 2024.

FAFSA将有更少的问题和更少的要求. It will retrieve tax information using a direct data exchange from the IRS instead of the previous IRS Data Retrieval Tool.

FAFSA正在引入新的术语，包括:

贡献者

A contributor is anyone who is required to provide information on a student’s FAFSA form, 包括学生, 学生的配偶, 亲生父母或养父母, 或者父母的配偶.

• 作为一个贡献者并不意味着对学生的大学费用负责.
• 学生将需要投稿人的名字, 出生日期, 社会安全号码, 和电子邮件地址，邀请他们完成FAFSA的要求部分.
• 所有contributors-student, student's spouse (if married) and student's parent(s) (if a 依赖学生)—must provide consent to have tax data transferred directly from the IRS to the FAFSA. 如果没有得到各方的同意, 该学生将没有资格获得联邦财政援助. 在前几年，传输IRS数据是可选的. 现在是必需的. 此外，小企业和家庭农场现在也被视为资产. 
• 如果你是 依赖学生，你将报告你的 父母的信息 和你自己的. 如果你的父母离婚或分居, 供款的父母是父母(及其配偶), if remarried) who provided the greater portion of your financial support during the 12 months immediately prior to filing the FAFSA. It is not automatically the parent you primarily lived with during the past 12 months.

学生资助指数

确定经济援助的需求分析公式, 以前称为期望家庭贡献(EFC), 现在将是 学生资助指数(SAI). 与EFC不同，SAI可能是一个负数. 最大EFC为0.

在FAFSA上，仍会询问在上大学的家庭成员人数, 但它将被排除在联邦法律之外, 状态, 以及机构财政援助的计算.

学生可能有资格根据家庭规模获得最高佩尔助学金, 调整后总收入(AGI), 贫困指导方针和纳税申报状况. 成绩为负或0分的学生有资格获得最高的佩尔助学金.

FAFSA提交摘要

学生资助报告(SAR)现在将被称为FAFSA提交摘要. This is the summary submission document you receive after your FAFSA is processed by the Department of Education. You will receive an email when your FAFSA提交摘要 is available to view beginning in the first half of March.

对新的学生资助指数(SAI)计算方法的调整将会扩大 联邦佩尔助学金 (不可偿还援助)资格给更多的学生.