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

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<p>Posted by CC in Parents forum but obviously relevant here.</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>The issue:

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>Wow. I feel like we’ve seen one or two posts here where this may have been a factor.</p>