A FAFSA application can have over 100 questions. With anything that long, the way information is phrased, organized, and presented can have a dramatic effect on
how easy it is to understand and complete. The Department of Education's web process is divided into many different pages, and it includes a lot of supplemental
information. We set out to create something uniquely simple to assist you. As a result, we guide you through the information necessary to prepare and file your
FAFSA application in a short, easy to understand, and easy to use way. Our questions get to the point quickly and use language you can understand. Our steps are
few, and organized intuitively. And our modern interface makes it easy to see where you are in the process, and how much you have left to go.
Our professional staff has conducted thousands of personal and business filings for our clients, serving as preparers, 3rd party filers, or both in filings with the
Department of Education, Internal Revenue Service, Social Security Administration, Secretaries of State for all 50 states, hundreds of County Clerks and more.
Together, we have decades of combined experience in these filings, making us experts in the details. But it has also given us a bird's eye view of the various
interrelated processes, which we can uniquely use to help you navigate them to successfully submit your FAFSA. For example, if the name you submit for a FAFSA
fails a social security number match, we can immediately diagnose the situation and help you perform the proper update with the SSA.
FAFSA mistakes can cause weeks of delay, or even thousands of dollars of potential aid. Our experience has taught us what the common
mistakes are. We watch carefully for inconsistencies in your application data and alert you whenever we see them, to get your filing done right the first time and
get you the maximum amount of aid that you qualify for. For example, the application requires information about state of legal residence and dislocated worker
status, which are concepts that can often confuse applicants. A tax paid amount out of proportion with adjusted gross income also stands out to us as an
indication that you may have put a tax refund amount in place of a tax paid amount. We can spot this and help you correct it before submitting it to the Department
of Education.
Customers of our service can use our uniquely simplified online interface, or they can choose to call us to speak to an advisor and place their order completely
over the phone. With both methods, we take care of the preparation and filing of the FAFSA application with the Department of Education for you. We'll send
instructions to you via e-mail after the filing on how to provide your signature and receive your Student Aid Report by e-mail. There are numerous state deadlines
throughout the year, during which we work extended hours in order to be available for you when you need it most.
Many colleges have detailed statistics available such as the net annual cost, student body composition,
and average salary earned ten years after starting the college. Our system allows you to compare your selected colleges on these
apples-to-apples comparison points, wherever the data is available. See an example
here.
Our specialists stand ready to assist you by phone each weekday, and by e-mail seven days a week, even in the evenings. We even increase staffing levels and
hours on the various state deadline dates throughout the year. Our focus is to be available for you on your schedule, not the other way around. The Department of
Education observes ten or more federal holidays every year such as Columbus Day.
When you're a customer of our preparation and filing service, we'll make sure you know when the FAFSA deadline approaches next year, because a student's FAFSA needs
to be re-filed annually while in school. We can prepopulate your last year's application information, making it easy for you to update only the information that has
changed, such as income and taxes. But the best part is that you don't have to wait for the deadline. FAFSAs can be filed starting on October 1 of each year, and
in many cases, the sooner you file, the better, because some aid programs are available only until their aid runs out. We allow you complete your order with us
in advance, at your convenience. We will prepare your FAFSA, and file it for you as soon as we can after October 1st, getting you a spot near the front of the
line with little effort on your part.
