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Legislation and regulations
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Improvements planned for Common Origination and Disbursement
March 14, 2019
Some improvements are coming to the Common Origination and Disbursement system, but there will be some outages for the Department of Education to put those improvements in place.
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New website addresses for students
March 14, 2019
Schools that provide links to important resources for incoming students will want to take note of some new website addresses for some Department of Education resources.
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Department of Education to reconsider some TEACH Grants becoming loans
February 14, 2019
Some teachers who have had their TEACH Grants turned into student loans may be eligible to have that student loan reconverted into a grant.
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Use Mapping Your Future verification resources
February 14, 2019
Verification of FAFSA data is a big task for financial aid professionals.
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Application deadline nearing for Work Colleges Program application
January 31, 2019
If your school is interested in participating in the Work Colleges Program, only about a month remains before the application for the 2019-2020 award year must be submitted.
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Selective Service Match is back
January 31, 2019
We just didn't know how much we would miss it until it was gone.
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College Financing Plan to replace Financial Aid Shopping Sheet
January 17, 2019
If your financial aid office likes to be one of the early adopters and does not mind making some changes to your process for the 2019-2020 awards, then you may want to be one of the first schools to try out the new College Financing Plan.
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Get Transcript Tool available
January 17, 2019
Students and parents who need to get their tax transcript for financial aid verification can once again use the IRS "Get Transcript" tool on the IRS site.
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New forms available for Perkins assignment
January 17, 2019
For those schools wanting to assign Perkins Loans to the Department of Education, there are new forms and new instructions.