New FAFSA form causes confusion for parents and students
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ม.ค. 2024
- The Class of 2024 will graduate soon.
“It's an emotional time,” said Natasha Davis.
Soon, her only daughter, Kayla, will be going to college.
“She's leaving but I’m happy for her because she's ready to start her new journey,” Davis explained.
However, to get there parents and kids have to tackle the FAFSA application.
That's the application for federal help with college costs.
It’s no problem for Runee Sallad, Georgia College's Early College Director, who's helped many parents complete one.
“Financial aid, scholarships, the whole application process- that's us,” Sallad said.
FAFSA usually opens in October, but The U.S. Department of Education launched a new form this past weekend and says it will be faster and simpler to fill out.
So, starting three months later than usual, Sallad said they were ready to fill it out.
“Several of the students emailed me saying they were going to stay up til 12- midnight. They’re going to be waiting for it to open,” she explained. “Then on the 31st, they were hit with the soft launch."
The FAFSA Soft Launch is where folks would only be able to apply during certain times the website was open while they monitor site performance and to make technical updates.
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This is bullshit but let them come to collect money right, and they take it before you even have it
Like I have to submit a damn forum for a scholarship by the 15th and it won’t let my parents do the contribution ugh 😭
Had a similar problem where my parents where filling the contributors part and signed their part and as i was finishing the students section I submitted and it said that they were unwilling to provide information even though we completed it together and I sent them an invite indicating that they were willing to provide their info and I can't see my SAI now :(
😢
Why did they make it online if they never even tested the website first? Now FAFSA is taking away my right to graduate high school (fafsa is a requirement in my area)
Look up the opt-out of fasfa form. I called my sons school district and was told it is in fact an option to opt out, but I have to request the fom from his school. Thing is I found this out from Google. The school did not give us this option. Get your diploma now and apply for fasfa when you need it.
I have the same issue, my son sent me the invitation to fill out my part as a parent and the form never shows up. I hope they solve this issue soon.
Same here, I thought I was the only one who noticed it
you have to create an account, once you login, the invitation will pop up in the activity area, it'll be in blue
My son completed on Jan20th & Invited us (my wife and I already have FAFSA ID's & accounts SSA matched), so please don't reply that's the problem) I recieved the link via email, just as in the video but nothing is in my activity page yet to accept the Invite, gonna give it a week. We are going through his end to make sure all info is correct just to be proactive. Good Luck everyone!
@@AuctionBossdid you find a resolution because I’m having the exact same problem with no answer from anyone.
@@trulyrblessed If you are using a joint parental FAFSA filing and you file jointly on your taxes, it went to my wife. We went into my sons account removed her and entered my information in, invited me and recieved it properly. We enetered both initally but put her as the defualt for some reason. Now however FAFSA and the intial process system that began on Jan 31st has caused a major issue within FAFSA. They have delayed any "official" results of aid until March. They did however add 1.8 Million to the Aid pool because of the delay so there is a positive. Hope this helped.
The invite gets sent to my parent but when she clicks accept nothing happens
Same thing happened to me. Have you found a solution?
@@EvilPlacebois there a solution?
I cant even comlete the fafsa. The whole year my email is blowing up with messages about my mom needing to sign the fafsa but they wont let them in.
Yes guys I found the solution!!
The key is to make sure both the parent account and the parent email information is exactly correct I capitalized one letter on one of the accounts and boom thats how it worked
So make sure to check the spelling
@@MBBlues but why does that matter when the gmail got thru it just asks ask to login then shows nothing at all
Frustrated parent since December 1st.
Same here!
i fr cant sign mines 😭😭
Thank god I did my last one for 2022-2023, last one graduated December
how do i sign the form at the end???
Mine says "the system is unable to complete this action" when I submit parent information.
Same. Been seeing that message for the past 30 days.
@@ammihernandez71same any fixes
@@ammihernandez71 the fix is if ur parents last name is to long then it wont let u continue
@@KauTionZmine parent last name is literally only 5 letters, aint no way thats the reason
Any updates/fix on this
This is the worst. I keep getting endless errors online when trying to fill out this form and now it is going to be too late. Just an awful job by US Department of Education.
Well hopefully the will have all the issues resolved.
My form won't even save or go through.
Same!!
Does anyone parents having trouble signing it ??????
Yeah, my parents have no SSN, but I was able to make their account and send the invite. However when they accept the email invite and login to FSA, my invite is not there 💀 apparently, fafsa has not fixed this issue for students with parents who have no SSN
@@leahpaz64895Ive been struggling with this sm bru it’s still not working lol
Yes
@@leahpaz64895 same problem I have no SSN and I send manual verification since Jan 31st and no solution yet and time is running out - 15 March as deadline for submission in my daughter's school
@@leahpaz64895the same thing is happening to me my form isn’t showing up in my moms account, I’m guessing it has to do with the fact we made account with no social security number , have you figured it out since then?
This is terrible , FAFSA needs to make up for its issues, if anything they shouldn’t be causing those problems and it’s causing so much stress to many families including mine.
I have been having issues since January for my daughter.
They have not been resolved.
Any other 23 year olds having an issue with signing the form when it loops back to the beginning of the form?
Yes !!!!
I can complete the parent section but by son, the student, can't get into his section at all. Error messages.
I try to create my mother an account but her last name is pass the 16 character limit. What do I do?
it wont let me sign
Same problem here!
Same it didn’t let me sign only my dad and when he signed it, it submitted so now I have to wait to sign it after its processed🥲
did you figure it out?
crazy to think that walmart has a better website than FAFSA atp😂😂. I can't even get past the "invite parents to this form" I'd rather sit down with my parents and do the form together rather than this invite bullshit. This whole "easier" form is bullshit and tbh the fact that many of students having the same issue proves that the older form (although long) is easier than this "new and quicker" form🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽 smfh this is so complicated for no reason.
i was told that an "limited access account" was created but I had no idea what that is? apparently the ssn already used? anyone have this issue
My husband!
I can’t create an account with Fasfa because of this same reason?!?! Why is this?
@@natlopz I was told that the student invite the parent and enter information incorrectly. And assuming the account weren't created yet. it store that information in the system and requires exact information to make an actual account. But it is likely that the system itself is bugged because we swear the right information was entered.
The student section has been completed and submitted however when i go to parent section it wont let me in. I click access existing form, click on the form, and then it just send me right back to the home page. Been like this for two weeks. Idk if this is the reason as to why its happening but my form in my activity is under a section called "drafts" rather then being in the "open" section. How do I solve this problem? Ive tried calling several times and they just say be patient but I have to have this in by the end of January to be eligible for the eof program at my school of choice.
I tried to send invitation to my spouse but i couldn’t send it.
Oh. Good. It's not mine or mum's fault. Because of this issue I have decided to look for a full-time job and pray I can scrap enough money for college.
What's that saying? "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Obiden trying to get votes😂😂😂
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