Do I have to fill out the FAFSA every year?
Yes, most academic financial aid offices require that you re-apply for financial aid by completing the FAFSA application every year you're enrolled in school.
One important reason you should fill out your FAFSA every year: your eligibility for financial aid can differ from year to year. Factors that can affect your financial aid eligibility can include changes in your family's economic status as well as the number of family members enrolled in college at the same time as you.
After your first year of school, you'll receive a FAFSA Renewal Application, which will fill out most of your information from your previous FAFSA application.
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More FAFSA Questions and Answers:
- What are the FAFSA deadlines?
- Who is a dependent student?
- What's my FAFSA status?
- What if my parents do not want to submit their information for the FAFSA?
- I filled out my FAFSA but was not eligible, what do I do now?
- What is the purpose of a FAFSA Renewal form?
- What if I have a non-traditional family situation?
- What's my FAFSA PIN?
- Do I have to fill out the FAFSA every school year?
- How do you go about filling out the FAFSA if I am divorced and remarried? Does my ex fill one out as well? Do we list our current spouses?
- In order to get a Stafford loan or a Parent Plus loan, do I need to fill out a FAFSA?
- Can you mail me a FAFSA?
- Can you mail me a renewal FAFSA?
- How long is the FAFSA process?
- What are the final steps of the FAFSA?
- How long does it take for my school to receive the FAFSA?
- What's the difference between a FAFSA and a renewal FAFSA?
- What's the difference between a paper FAFSA and a FAFSA on the Web?
- Where should I mail my completed FAFSA paper application?
- What's the difference between a FAFSA application and a FASFA application?
