{"id":525,"date":"2017-09-22T20:50:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T01:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/?p=525"},"modified":"2017-09-22T20:50:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T01:50:20","slug":"october-1-is-almost-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/2017\/09\/22\/october-1-is-almost-here\/","title":{"rendered":"October 1 is almost here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a senior, you should know how important October 1 is these days. \u00a0It&#8217;s opening day for FASFA filing! \u00a0I recently listened to a couple of great podcasts about preparing for the FASFA over at Ultimate Homeschool Radio, and I highly recommend you check them! \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ultimateradioshow.com\/fafsa-equals-free-money\/\">FASFA Equals Free Money<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/ultimateradioshow.com\/fafsa-12-best-kept-secrets\/\">FASFA 12 Best Kept Secrets<\/a> were very informative. \u00a0For instance, I had no idea that I needed an <a href=\"https:\/\/fsaid.ed.gov\/npas\/index.htm\">FSA ID<\/a> to digitally sign the FASFA! \u00a0But thanks to the advice from Jean Burk, we applied for our IDs today, so we will have them ready by October 1.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that I believe Ms. Burk got wrong is the tax information needed to file. \u00a0She mentions repeatedly in both shows about using the 2015 tax return to file. \u00a0That is the information printed on the form I downloaded, however that was last year&#8217;s form. \u00a0My <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ed.gov\/2016\/08\/2-major-fafsa-changes-need-aware\/\">research <\/a>shows that will change come this October 1. \u00a0Yes, you would be using the prior-prior year&#8217;s return, however, come October 1, 2017, you will be filing for the 2018 school year. \u00a0That means that anyone filing for the 2018 school year should be using 2016 tax information.<\/p>\n<p>But other than that, the podcasts were very informative. \u00a0I really appreciate Ms. Burk and Ms. Felice Gerwitz for putting together this great resource for folks like me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a senior, you should know how important October 1 is these days. \u00a0It&#8217;s opening day for FASFA filing! \u00a0I recently listened to a couple of great podcasts &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[40,46,53,62,68],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources","category-tips","tag-college","tag-fafsa","tag-high-school","tag-october-1","tag-seniors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/FAFSA_Financial_Aid.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}