{"id":180333,"date":"2022-10-13T01:20:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T01:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=180333"},"modified":"2022-10-13T03:16:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T03:16:37","slug":"understanding-fafsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/understanding-fafsa","title":{"rendered":"Understanding FAFSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, is the form students need to fill out to get any financial aid from the federal government to help pay for higher education. Each year, over 13 million students who file the FAFSA get more than $120 billion in grants, work-study, and low-interest loans from the U.S. Department of Education. Many states and colleges also use the FAFSA to determine which students get financial aid&#8212;and how much they&#8217;ll get. The FAFSA asks for information about you and your family&#8217;s finances, including tax returns, so students often need their parents help to complete it. Countless numbers of students and parents are not completing the form accurately. These students will miss out on significant amounts of dollars in grants and federal funds simply because they are not aware of how to properly fill out a FASFA application and, in some cases, not filling out the application at all. The FAFSA should be completed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, is the form students need to fill out to get any financial aid from the federal government to help pay for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,1],"tags":[177,96,339],"class_list":["post-180333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-colleges","tag-education","tag-federal-aid"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}