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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.
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Help for borrowers who help others
December 13, 2018
Student loan borrowers who dedicate their career to helping others now have a new tool to help them with Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
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Tip sheet for students impacted by natural disaster
December 13, 2018
It has been all too common an experience for both students and schools in the past couple of years - the impact of a natural disaster.
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A time of peace, love, and reconciliation requirements
December 12, 2018
Not to dampen anyone's holiday mood, but the Department of Education issued a reminded schools this week of the general disbursement reporting, excess cash, and reconciliation requirements for all Title IV programs.
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Holiday gift for financial aid professionals
December 11, 2018
Just in time for holiday gift giving. . . the Department of Education has released two new volumes of the FSA Handbook.
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2019-20 Verification worksheets released
November 29, 2018
Mapping Your Future recently released the 2019-20 verification worksheets provided to assist Member schools and schools in Sponsored states in collecting information they need from students to complete the verification process.
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Future financial aid system changes for processing the Children of Fallen Heroes Scholarship
November 28, 2018
Postsecondary institutions who want to certify student eligibility for the Children of Fallen Heroes Scholarship are not able to do so in the Common Origination and Disbursement (COD) system - at least not yet.