Glitch In FAFSA Form Changes Thousands Of Future College Students’ Financial Aid Offers

[Dave_Berry]

<p>“According to the Seattle Times, nearly 200,000 future college students, many of them low-income, may received incorrect financial aid offers due to an error in the online FAFSA form.” …</p>

<p><a href=“Glitch In FAFSA Form Changes Thousands Of Future College Students’ Financial Aid Offers – Consumerist”>http://consumerist.com/2014/07/22/glitch-in-fafsa-form-changes-thousands-of-future-college-students-financial-aid-offers/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>More: <a href=“http://blogs.seattletimes.com/educationlab/2014/07/22/fafsa-mistake-federal-department-education/”>http://blogs.seattletimes.com/educationlab/2014/07/22/fafsa-mistake-federal-department-education/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[OHMomof2]

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For example, if an applicant whose personal income was $3,000.49 entered that exact amount into the form — instead of just using the rounded $3,000 amount — the decimal point would disappear and the government mistakenly thought that the applicant had earned $300,0049.

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<p>Good grief. Haven’t we seen a couple of these in the FA forum this year?</p>