2024-25年FAFSA有什么变化?

• 以学生资助指数取代预期家庭贡献(EFC). 从2024-25年度开始, students and families will see a different measure of their ability to pay for college and experience a change in the methodology used to determine aid. 这在以前被称为期望家庭贡献(EFC)。, 但现在被称为学生援助指数(SAI). The new need analysis formula removes the number of family members in college from the calculation, 允许最小SAI为-1500, 并对联邦佩尔助学金实施单独的资格确定标准.
• FAFSA将更短，更方便用户使用: 问题的最大数量将会减少, FAFSA表格会直接从国税局提取你的税务信息. The FAFSA简化法案 removes questions about Selective Service registration and drug convictions. These changes will simplify and expedite the application process for students and their families.
• FAFSA“贡献者”: 贡献者是任何被要求提供申请人FAFSA信息的人, 包括学生, 学生配偶(如适用), 亲生或养父母, 或继父或继母. 学生在FAFSA上的回答将决定哪些贡献者, 如果有任何, 是否需要提供资料.
  • Contributors will receive a separate email informing them that they've been identified as such. They will need to login using their own FSA ID and provide the required information on the student's FAFSA. Being a contributor does not mean you are financially responsible for the student's education costs, 但这意味着你必须提供有关FAFSA的信息. 如果投稿人拒绝提供必要的信息, 申请将是不完整的, 该学生将没有资格获得联邦学生资助.
• 所有的投稿人必须有FSA的ID并提供同意. All contributors to the FAFSA are required to have their own FSA ID and must provide consent to have their federal tax information transferred from the IRS, 他们的税务数据是否用于确定学生是否有资格获得联邦援助, 并允许美国.S. Department of Education to share their tax information with institutions and state higher education agencies for the administration of Title IV aid. 同意只提供一次，在该奖励年度内不得撤销. 即使投稿人没有社会安全号码，这个同意也是必要的, 没有报税, 或者在另一个国家报税. If a contributor does not provide consent, the applicant will not be eligible for any Title IV aid.
• 捐款人将被要求使用IRS直接数据交换来获取他们的税务信息. 以前, applicants and their parents could manually enter their tax information or utilize the IRS Data Retrieval Tool. 从2024-25援助年度开始, the law mandates that the Office of Federal Student Aid use federal tax information received directly from the IRS to calculate Federal Pell Grant eligibility and the SAI. 这要求所有贡献者在FAFSA中使用IRS直接数据交换. 使这种数据交换成为可能 未来的行为.
• FAFSA报告的免税收入正在发生变化. 下 FAFSA简化法案, only the forms of untaxed income that are included on the federal 纳税申报表 will be included on the FAFSA and in the calculation of the SAI.
• 家庭农场和小企业必须作为资产申报. 申请人现在将被要求报告所有企业的净资产, 不管企业的规模有多大. 对于农场的净值，现在包括了家庭农场的价值. 然而，家庭主要住所的价值仍然被排除在外.
• 在大学里，这个数字不会被用来计算学生的SAI. 而在大学问题上的数字仍然在FAFSA上, 它将不再包括在学生的SAI计算中. 结果是, undergraduate students with siblings in college may see a change in their federal aid eligibility.
• FAFSA公式中家庭定义的修改: 从2024-25年度开始，家庭规模将被称为家庭规模. The definition of family size has changed to align with the number of individuals reported as dependents on the applicant’s (if independent) or applicant’s parents’ (if dependent) U.S. 纳税申报表. 申请人可在提交报税表后更改其家庭人数.
• 在离婚或分居的情况下，负责填写FAFSA的父母已经改变. 对于一个 依赖学生 谁的父母离婚或分居但没有再婚, the parent who provided the greater portion of the student's financial support during the 12 months prior to 提交FAFSA is now considered the parent of record for the FAFSA. 在册父母必须在FAFSA上提供他们的收入和资产信息.
• 学生可以在FAFSA上列出最多20所学院和大学.
• 住房选择将不再包括在内. 与2024-25年FAFSA一起生效, 学生宿舍选择问题(在校园), 在校外, 与父母, 等.)将从FAFSA中删除.
• FAFSA将有更多的语言版本. 从2024-25援助年度开始, FAFSA将以美国最常用的11种语言提供. Additional language-specific support will be available from the Federal Student Aid Information Center.
• 人口统计问题介绍. FAFSA简化法案增加了关于申请人人口统计(性别)的新问题, 比赛, 和民族), 哪些不会影响联邦学生资助资格. 请注意，学校不会从FAFSA收到这些人口统计数据.
• 扩大获得联邦佩尔助学金的机会. The FAFSA简化法案 will expand the Federal Pell Grant to more students and will link eligibility to family size and the federal poverty level. 因此，一些学生可能会自动获得最高或最低的佩尔助学金. 佩尔助学金的最高和最低数额将由SAI决定. Incarcerated students in federal and state penal facilities will regain the ability to receive a Federal Pell Grant. Federal Pell Grant lifetime eligibility will be restored to students whose school closed while they were enrolled or if a school is found to have misled the student.