{"id":379,"date":"2017-10-19T13:55:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T17:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mi-alma.org\/?p=379"},"modified":"2017-10-19T13:58:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T17:58:05","slug":"2018-19-free-application-for-federal-student-aid-fafsa-opened-oct-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mi-alma.org\/2018-19-free-application-for-federal-student-aid-fafsa-opened-oct-1\/","title":{"rendered":"2018-19 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA\u00ae) Opened Oct. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OCTOBER 3, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Internal Revenue Service Data Retrieval Tool (IRS DRT) is Available!<\/p>\n<p>The financial aid filing season officially began at 1 a.m. ET on Sunday, Oct. 1 with the launch of the 2018\u201219 FAFSA\u00ae at\u00a0fafsa.gov. Nearly 238,000 online applications were submitted the first day, representing an eight percent increase compared to one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Most students and parents are eligible to use the IRS DRT to electronically transfer their 2016 tax return information. The tool returned Oct. 1 for the 2018\u201219 FAFSA with extra security and privacy protections to safeguard sensitive taxpayer data.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, more than 20 million FAFSAs are submitted, resulting in more than $120 billion in federal grants, loans and work-study funds to help pay for college or career school.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/news\/press-releases\/2018-19-free-application-federal-student-aid-fafsa%C2%AE-opened-oct-1\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OCTOBER 3, 2017 Internal Revenue Service Data Retrieval Tool (IRS DRT) is Available! The financial aid filing season officially began at 1 a.m. ET on Sunday, Oct. 1 with the launch of the 2018\u201219 FAFSA\u00ae at\u00a0fafsa.gov. Nearly 238,000 online applications were submitted the first day, representing an eight percent increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mi-alma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mi-alma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mi-alma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mi-alma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mi-alma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mi-alma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/mi-alma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mi-alma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mi-alma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mi-alma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}