It's not too late to get financial aid for 2016-2017 but you will have to act fast! Some students' FAFSAs are chosen by the Dept. of Education to be "verified," meaning our office will need additional paperwork before we can pay any financial aid. If you took spring classes, the deadline to submit the paperwork is Friday, May 5th. After that point it will be difficult for us … [Read more...] about Deadline to submit paperwork for 2016-2017
The IRS Data Retrieval Tool (DRT) has been deactivated until further notice. Yes, we're sad about it. Sad enough to want sad trombone music. Citing data security concerns, the U.S. Department of Education and the IRS have disabled the DRT until additional security measures can be put into place. The outage is expected to last until October when the 2018-2019 FAFSA becomes … [Read more...] about Update on the IRS Data Retrieval Tool
The U.S. Department of Education issued a statement on Thursday informing families that the IRS Data Retrieval Tool (DRT) has been temporarily suspended due to an ongoing effort to ensure the security of private information. The DRT is a feature of the FAFSA, the universal application for federal financial aid, intended to make filing the application faster by transferring … [Read more...] about FAFSA IRS Data Retrieval Tool Outage