For: Practitioners Federal Updates for Practitioners

ATTENTION:

Materials from our FAFSA Convening on Thursday, April 18, are available here.

According to the U.S. Department of Education (ED), student corrections are now available, and an email will be sent to all applicants and their contributors in the coming days with 2024-25 FAFSAs that are in an “Action Required” status, i.e., their FAFSA has been rejected or started but not submitted. ED said the corrections should only take “a few minutes” and schools should receive a new ISIR transaction within 1-3 days of the applicant’s submission of a correction. Here’s an updated resource to help students and contributors make corrections to their 2024-25 form: https://ow.ly/OWxJ50Ri9uK (updated 4/17/24)

The US Department of Education has announced that the FAFSA software has been corrected to allow contributors without Social Security numbers to use the online application. Read about this change here.

Each of Washington’s public four-year institutions has extended the College Decision Day to June 1, 2024. This extension is in place to provide students and families with sufficient time to navigate the FAFSA/WASFA process and make well-informed decisions regarding their higher education pathways. Read about this change here.