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 * PUBLISHED June 23, 2009, //9:03 pm-GREAT NEWS ABOUT FINANCIAL AID!!!//

[|Government to Streamline Financial Aid Application in Early 2010]
By [|New York Times] “The Obama administration is moving to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or [|Fafsa], a notoriously complicated form that asks students and their families seeking financial aid for college as many as 153 questions,” reports [|Tamar Lewin] in [|an article] to be published in Wednesday’s Times. She adds:

In January, when next year’s form goes online, about 20 percent of the questions will be eliminated, mostly by avoiding redundancies. For example, students who are at least 24, or married, will automatically be able to skip the 11 quesitons about their parents’ finanical information, and low-income students will be able to skip the questions about assets, which are not used to determine their aid eligibility. (GO TO LINK TO READ MORE!)