Office of Student Financial Aid » Uncategorized http://blogs.missouristate.edu/financialaid Financial Aid weblog Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:24:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Update to the Parent PLUS Loan Program for 2009/10 http://blogs.missouristate.edu/financialaid/2009/04/14/update-to-the-parent-plus-loan-program-for-200910/ http://blogs.missouristate.edu/financialaid/2009/04/14/update-to-the-parent-plus-loan-program-for-200910/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:24:52 +0000 Vicki Mattocks http://blogs.missouristate.edu/financialaid/?p=21 Continue reading →]]> Parents no longer need to wait to apply for the Parent PLUS loan for the 2009/10 academic year.

The Federal Department of Education has announced the cancellation of the Competitive Loan Auction Pilot Program for Parent PLUS loans. 

Per the Federal Department of Education:  During the 2009-10 and 2010-11 award years, Parent PLUS loans under the Federal Family Education Loan program may be made by any eligible lender to parents of students attending eligible educational institutions in any State.

For more information about the Parent PLUS Loan program or to view a partial list of lenders who offer the Plus loan please visit our web site at:  http://www.missouristate.edu/FinancialAid/plus.htm 

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The Office of Student Financial Aid in conjunction with the Missouri Department of Higher Education (MDHE) will be presenting  “The Bear Essentials”, a seminar on best financial practices.  The seminar will provide students with excellent tools to aid in surviving these rocky financial times.

 

The topics that will be covered in this seminar include:

 

¨     Creating a Spending & Savings Plan

¨     Understanding Your Credit Report

¨     Financing Your Education

¨     Mastering Money Management

¨     Calculating Your Future.

 

Students will have three opportunities to attend “The Bear Essentials”.  The dates, times and venues for these sessions are:

 

Monday, April 27th at 6 p.m. in PSU room 308

Tuesday, April 28th at 6 p.m. in the Blair-Shannon Grand Lounge

Wednesday, April 29th at 6 p.m. in the Hammons House Basement

 

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain the skills you may need to survive today’s unstable financial times.

 

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Acknowledgement letters are being mailed to students who have submitted their 2009/10 FAFSA.  Please read your letter carefully; if we require additional documentation from you, a list of the required information is provided on your letter.  Follow the instructions on how to access forms on our web site and return all documents to the Office of Student Financial Aid as soon as possible.  A quick response from you will help us serve you better.

 

This action will be new to those of you who are used to accessing your financial aid information on the web.  In early April, this information will be available on My Missouri State along with other data about your personal financial aid record.  However, we didn’t want to delay our request for these documents so we chose to notify you by mail as early as possible.  We encourage you to take advantage of the early alert and start mailing copies of those tax forms now!

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Welcome to our Financial Aid Blog!  We’re excited about taking this opportunity to communicate with our students on a more personal basis than allowed by e-mail; we anticipate using this space to keep you updated on what’s going on in our world.  We’ll remind you of upcoming deadlines, provide hints on how to avoid those dreaded long lines, pass on the latest changes in the student loan industry…in other words, you can use this source to make your life easier!  We hope you visit our Blog page often, and that it proves successful in that goal!

 Sincerely,

 Vicki Mattocks,
Director Office of Student Financial Aid

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