Melissa Korn
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822 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2017
last heard Sep 2024
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So the Department of Education has said that they will be working with community-based organizations, high schools, colleges, and they are very strategically selecting who they'll open up the system to so that they have people who maybe their families filed amended tax returns.
So they're
Pulling the data from the IRS is a little more complicated for them.
Or if they have a parent who's not a U.S.
citizen, their application can be a little more complicated.
So they're going to really try to get a broad range of applicants just to make sure the system works for them on a small scale and then release it more widely.
So we don't have a great sense of exactly, you know, on October 1st this, on October 15th this other group, things like that.
But they did say on a call last week with media that they are ensuring that people who do have access early are not going to be at a significant advantage in terms of accessing funds, right?
There are states and there are schools that run out of money at a certain point, and it's kind of first come, first serve in terms of accessing scholarship dollars.
Everybody will still be
able to tap into those pools of funds, the Department of Ed said, because everything, everyone will still have access by December 1st.
Yes, and they've been in touch with schools about how they're prioritizing, frankly, rolling out this New Year's cycle.
Even at the expense of finishing up last year's cycle, they haven't finished processing all of the applications from students who are planning to start school this fall.
Correct.
Yes.
So and what they're trying to say is we want there to be certainty starting next year.
And a lot of people need to make corrections to their aid applications, change in job status, accidentally typed a number wrong, whatever it is.
And usually schools can process those by batches.
And the Department of Ed essentially said, you're going to have to do those one by one because we just need to focus on the new stuff now.
Families, frankly, and colleges will benefit from understanding that this is not going to be an immediate process.
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