Worth it to fill out FAFSA

[BelknapPoint]

@sdl0625

if anyone can do it in 30 minutes, come over here and help me. It has taken hours in the past. We have multiple bank accounts/529/etc. At least there is the IRS retrieval tool. Trying to remember, is the 529 considered the parents money or the students money?

I’ll help you here. If you don’t already have this set up, establish online access to all your bank accounts, investment accounts, 529 accounts, etc. It shouldn’t take you more than a minute to log into each account and get the current balance. Ok, if you have 30 or more accounts to report on FAFSA, it will take longer than 30 minutes to complete the form.

Seriously, if you have done this once before and are semi-organized and can think ahead to prepare for the next one, this is not rocket surgery and should not take hours to do.