{"id":3975,"date":"2016-09-28T18:11:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T02:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2016-09-28T18:11:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T02:11:02","slug":"obama-implements-new-fafsa-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/obama-implements-new-fafsa-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama implements new FAFSA changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Zoe Strickland\r\nManaging Editor<\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year, President Barack Obama announced that there would be changes made to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. According to the FAFSA website, there are two changes that students should be aware of. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Starting this year, the FAFSA will be available to fill out starting Oct. 1. However, the completion deadline of June 30 has remained the same. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to the new opening date, President Obama has announced that students and families will report earlier income information. In the past, students have been required to report their tax information for the current school year as a part of the FAFSA application process. Starting this year, students will report their tax information from the previous year.This means that for the 2017-18 FAFSA application, applicants use their tax information from 2015. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the FAFSA website, these changes have been implemented so that \u201cmore students and families will be able to complete their FAFSA using income information imported electronically from the IRS [\u2026] rather than submitting applications with income estimates that may need correcting, or [\u2026] waiting until the previous year\u2019s tax return has been filed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Western will be hosting FAFSA completion workshops in room 108 of Hamersly Library from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Oct. 3-6. If you\u2019re interested in attending one of the workshops, bring your FAFSA username and password, as well as your 2015 tax information. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To begin your FAFSA application independently, visit fafsa.ed.gov. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More information about the changes to the FAFSA can be found at studentaid.ed.gov\/sa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at journalmanaging@wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Zoe Strickland Managing Editor Last year, President Barack Obama announced that there would be changes made to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. According to the FAFSA website, there are two changes that students should be aware of. Starting this year, the FAFSA will be available to fill out starting Oct. 1. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":823,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}