[Okepas] FAFSA reminder

[Brown, Cynthia]

FYI - Cindy

 

Greetings

 

How many of your students/children/friends don't know that the official
FAFSA URL is www.fafsa.ed.gov? Ask them - you might be surprised.

 

Last year, the number of students who complained to the Federal Student
Aid Information Center that they had been charged to complete the FAFSA
rose noticeably. Most complainants stated that when they filled out the
FAFSA online, they thought they were at the U.S. Department of Education
(ED) web site. Later they learned that the FAFSA is provided for free by
ED at our site.

 

If you would like to remind students of the FAFSA application site's
URL, you might try some of the following methods:

 

* posters

* flyers

* e-mails to students and parents

* articles in school/local newspaper 

* announcements at parent nights

* information on your web site (and a link to the official FAFSA site)

 

Tell your students: "The first F in 'FAFSA' stands for 'free.' If a web
site asks for your credit card information, you're not at the official
FAFSA site."

 

 

Cindy Forbes Cameron 
Awareness & Outreach 
Federal Student Aid 
U.S. Dept of Education 

for counselors and mentors: www.fsa4schools.ed.gov/counselors 
for students: www.studentaid.ed.gov 
1-800-4-FED-AID 

 

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