Completing the 2020-21 FAFSA...3 Overview • The 2020-21 fafsa.gov Preview Presentation provides...

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Completing the 2020-21 FAFSA

October 2019

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Topics• Overview• Home view• Login view• Dependent Student with Parental Data view• Independent Student view• My FAFSA views • SAR view• FAFSA Corrections view • Auto-Zero EFC (skipping the remaining financial questions) view• Special Circumstances view• Special Circumstance – Unsubsidized Loan Only view• Homeless Circumstance view• Additional Resources

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Overview• The 2020-21 fafsa.gov Preview Presentation provides screenshots that

Financial Aid Professionals, mentors, and counselors can use as a guide for the 2020-21 fafsa.gov application. The screenshots and information provided can be used to create/modify presentations for professional trainings and high school nights.

• The screenshots are intended to show the majority of the questions displayed in fafsa.gov; however, most students and/or parents are unlikely to need to answer all of the questions when completing their application.

• The test data used in this presentation shows examples of what fafsa.gov will look like.

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Overview (continued, part 1)

• The 2020-2021 version of fafsa.gov will be available for applicants to use on October 1, 2019.

• You can use the Web Demonstration site to preview 2020-2021 functionality beginning on September 30, 2019.

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Overview (continued, part 2)• The following are key features of fafsa.gov:

– Students and parents may begin, complete, and submit a new or renewal FAFSA form for the 2020–21 FAFSA processing cycle.

– Students and parents who are eligible may use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool (IRS DRT) to electronically transfer federal tax return information into a FAFSA form.

– Students and parents may be eligible to transfer their FAFSA information into their state aid application. Participating states include Iowa, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.

– Parents that have multiple students who need to file an application may be eligible to transfer their FAFSA information into a new application from the original student’s confirmation page.

– Students will be able to view additional information about the schools they selected on their FAFSA form for easy comparison of schools.

– New views and sections have been added in effort to sync fafsa.gov with the mobile app. – Students and parents can save an application from fafsa.gov and resume where they left off on the mobile

app.

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Home view

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Home – Top Section

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Home – Middle Section

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Home – Bottom Section

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Login

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Dependent Student with Parental Data

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