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2024-2025年FAFSA现已发布! 的 launch had been delayed by the Department of Education but can be completed online 现在 at studentaid.政府.

你必须完成FAFSA申请 每年 为即将到来的学年. After the 2024-2025 aid year, the FAFSA application will be available in October as usual.

• After you submit your FAFSA and it’s processed by ED, the calculation that results will 不再 be the Estimated Family Contribution (成立分公司). 的 成立分公司 已经被 学生资助指数(赛). 
• 高需求的学生可能会得到否定 赛 低至- 1500.
• 的 赛 is used to determine eligibility for financial aid programs.
• Unlike the 成立分公司 calculation, the 赛 calculation 不会 consider the number of family members in college. This may reduce need-based aid eligibility for current students with siblings in college. (Although the number of family members in college will be asked on the FAFSA, this information will be excluded from the 赛 calculation.)
• Additional student race and gender questions. 学生对这些问题的回答 不会 与机构和 不 used in the consideration of student aid eligibility. 

FAFSA贡献者是指那些需要提供FAFSA申请信息的人. 每个贡献者现在都需要提供他们的同意来检索他们的联邦税务信息(FTI)，并在FAFSA上披露他们的FTI. 

由于FTI包括提交状态，即使贡献者没有提交U.S. 联邦纳税申报表(或任何纳税申报表). (如果投稿人拒绝同意, 学生的FAFSA申请将不被处理，学生将没有资格获得经济援助).

注意: Students experiencing 不寻常的情况s are encouraged to reach out to their 经济援助顾问 澳门官方老葡京他们的 不寻常的情况. 财务援助顾问将指导学生如何继续完成FAFSA. 当学生无人陪伴、无家可归或有无家可归风险时，会出现不寻常的情况, 无法与家长联系, or when contact with the parent is detrimental to the student’s health. 例子包括人口贩运, 合法地给予难民或庇护身份的, 父母的遗弃或疏远, 父母监禁.

在FAFSA申请中, 输入投稿人的名字, 出生日期, 社会安全号码(SSN), and email address to invite them to complete their required portion of the FAFSA.

捐款人需要在他们的FAFSA部分提供个人和财务信息，如人口统计和资产信息. 

Contributors are those required to provide consent and approval for obtaining Federal Tax Information (FTI) needed to complete a student’s FAFSA. 

除了 to the student, if applicable, a contributor may include:

• Student’s spouse (if the student is independent and filed separate 2022 federal tax returns)
• Biological or adopted parent(s) (if the student is dependent)
• 父母的配偶(继父母)

Unless they have legally adopted you, contributors are NOT:

• 爷爷奶奶
• 养父母
• 丧偶的继父母
• 法定监护人
• 兄弟姐妹
• 阿姨或叔叔

谁是有贡献的父母?

• 你的法律(生理), 收养, or as determined by the state (parent is listed on birth certificate)) parents
  • married to each other (not separated), both parents are contributors
  • unmarried but living together, both parents are contributors
• Divorced or separated parents (not remarried)
  • 在FAFSA上有记录的父母(主要父母)是指在提交FAFSA之前的12个月内为学生提供大部分经济支持的父母.
  • If neither parent provided support in the 12-month period, 在FAFSA上记录的父母是在学生从父母那里获得经济支持的最近一年中提供大部分支持的父母.
  • 在确定哪一位家长提供了学生一半以上的经济支持时，支付子女抚养费的父母应包括在相关12个月期间支付的子女抚养费金额.
  • 请记住，在提交FAFSA之前的12个月里，FAFSA上记录的父母并不一定是学生主要生活在一起的父母.
  • If both parents claim an equal amount of support, then the parent of record is the parent with the greater amount of income and assets. 如果父母在最近一年中都没有提供更多的支持，那么学生从父母那里得到的支持, the parent of record is the parent with the higher amount of income and assets.
• 父母一方死亡
  • If either parent has died before the student completes the FAFSA, the surviving parent only is the FAFSA parent of record, 除非父母再婚. If the surviving parent remarries prior to the student filing the FAFSA, the surviving parent and stepparent are FAFSA contributors.
• 父母再婚
  • 如果上述2或3中确定的FAFSA记录的父母在提交FAFSA之前再婚, both the parent of record and that parent’s spouse shall be FAFSA contributors.
  • 首先考虑每个亲生父母/养父母的经济支持，而不考虑任何继父母的收入和支持. 在确定哪个亲生父母/养父母为学生提供更多的经济支持后, if the parent FAFSA of record is remarried at the time of FAFSA filing, that parent’s spouse/student’s stepparent is also a FAFSA contributor.
• Single parent who is not divorced or separated
  • 如果没有在上面的1中描述, 未离婚的单亲父母, 分居或再婚, shall be the single parent FAFSA contributor.

注意:

依赖学生:

• If parents are married and filed a joint 2022 federal tax return, only one parent needs to complete the FAFSA as a contributor.
• If married parents filed separate 2022 federal tax returns, both parents need to complete the FAFSA as a contributor.

独立的学生:

• If an independent student is married and filed a joint 2022 federal tax return with a spouse, the student is the only FAFSA contributor.
• 如果独立学生已婚并单独提交2022年联邦纳税申报表，或者如果学生和/或配偶没有提交2022年联邦纳税申报表, then both student and spouse are FAFSA contributors.

All FAFSA contributors will need to have an FSA ID (帐户用户名及密码). FSA ID允许您和您的父母或捐助者以电子方式识别自己，以便您可以电子签署FAFSA并访问联邦学生援助网站.

我们鼓励您和其他拥有社会安全号码(SSN)但尚未拥有FSA ID的出资人这样做 创建FSA ID 现在. 

How to get an FSA ID for individuals without a Social 安全 Number (SSN)

的 Department of Education is aware of a 已知问题 涉及没有社会安全号的学生.

Except for student citizens of the Freely Associated States (who don’t always have a SSNs), 学生必须使用社会安全号来创建他们的学生FSA ID，因为学生必须有社会安全号才有资格获得第四章援助.

Other contributors do not need to have an SSN.  如果个人没有社会安全号码, 他们将被要求提供他们的地址，并将被引导通过一个基于知识的身份认证过程. 

An FSA ID is required to file the online FAFSA.

更多指引可在此查阅: FSA ID没有SSN

• 看看教育部的 为2024-2025年的FAFSA提供建议.
• We encourage students and expected FAFSA contributors to create or confirm their FSA ID. Do this 尽快 since creating an FSA ID takes 3 to 5 days.
• 看这个 联邦学生援助视频 to guide you through the steps to create your FSA ID.
• 创建FSA ID包括两步验证，这是一个有助于保护学生援助的安全功能.政府帐户免受欺诈.  启用两步验证时, 发送到手机的代码, 除了用户名和密码之外, 登录时需要什么.
• Each contributor must have a unique mobile phone number or email for multi-factor authentication.
• 自2024-2025年以来，FAFSA收取上一年的收入(学年开始前两年), 考虑如果 特殊情况下 exist that may allow an appeal to be requested after the FAFSA application is completed.