Sunday, November 13, 2005

File your 2006-2007 FAFSA Application

If you plan on starting school in the fall of 2006, you need to fill out the 2006-2007 FAFSA.

The 2006-2007 FAFSA Application is available from the government on January 1st. It is highly recommended that you fill out the FAFSA on January 1st or as soon after as possible.

If you want to get the 2006-2007 application out of the way now and do not want to worry about it, you can file it now with easyaid.com at:

The 2006-2007 FAFSA at easyaid.com.

Easyaid.com will check over your answers to ensure that you have no mistakes and your application will not be rejected. The application will be filed precisely when the new application is available, at midnight central time on January 1st, 2006.

Sunday, November 06, 2005

Which Parent's information do I use for the FAFSA?

If your parents are divorced and it is time to file the FAFSA, you might have trouble figuring out whose information to use. If you father makes $100,000 a year and your mother makes $20,000 a year, you might automatically think that using your mother's information might be beneficial. The law states that you must put the financial information of the parent who will provide more than 50% of the student's support during the school year. In the situation above, if you are living with your father and he is paying the bills, you would have to use his information. If you are still a dependant student living on your own and no parent is funding any part of your well being, you can choose whichever parent you want to put on the FAFSA. It would be in your best interest to use the parent who makes less money.