{"id":300,"date":"2012-02-22T15:28:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T21:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/?p=300"},"modified":"2018-08-14T11:31:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T16:31:55","slug":"new-expertise-changes-to-fafsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/2012\/02\/22\/new-expertise-changes-to-fafsa\/","title":{"rendered":"New Expertise and Changes to FAFSA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to take this opportunity to introduce my new Assistant Director of Financial Aid.\u00a0 Her name is Kristina Alvarez.\u00a0 Kristina brings to MIAD 5 years of financial aid experience, excellent customer service and a true willingness to assist students and their families. Please feel free to contact Kristina or me if you have any financial aid questions.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I sent an e-mail to all current students reminding them that it is once again time to file their FAFSA for the 2012-13 academic year. The Department of Education has made some significant changes to the 2012-13 FAFSA. I would like to share these with you to make the application process as smooth as possible.<!--more-->You can file a \u201cWill File\u201d FAFSA if you have not yet completed your 2011 Federal Tax return.\u00a0 Once you have completed your tax return, you must correct the FAFSA to an \u201cAlready Completed\u201d status and submit any corrections now that you have official numbers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. The Department of Education and the IRS<\/strong> have worked together to allow FAFSA applicants to import their tax information submitted to the IRS by using the \u201cIRS Data Retrieval Tool\u201d on the FAFSA.\u00a0 MIAD strongly encourages all FAFSA applicants to use this tool.\u00a0 This tool is available to you two weeks after you have electronically submitted your tax return or six to eight weeks after you mailed in your paper tax return.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Another Department of Education change<\/strong> for the 2012-13 FAFSA application is the documentation MIAD will require if you are selected for \u201cVerification.\u201d The Department of Education randomly selects one out of every three applicants for this process. If your son or daughter is selected for verification they will be sent a letter from the MIAD Financial Aid Office asking for the following documents to be submitted:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Verification Worksheet\u00a0 (enclosed in the letter)<\/li>\n<li>A copy of the Student\u2019s Tax Transcript (if they filed taxes)<\/li>\n<li>A copy of Parent\u2019s Tax Transcript (if you filed taxes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, if you used the \u201cIRS Data Retrieval Tool\u201d to populate the FAFSA we do not need the Tax Transcripts submitted; the FAFSA data is sufficient. We will only need the Verification Worksheet completed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the past, a signed copy of the Federal tax return was acceptable documentation for verification.\u00a0 This is a major change. Tax Returns are no longer acceptable documentation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Last but not least, Parents who rely on the Parent Plus loan<\/strong> to cover the outstanding balance owing MIAD or Room and Board expenses must apply for the loan each year. The Department of Education requires the application for a credit check each year. The Student\u2019s Award Letter will identify the maximum amount of a Parent Plus loan you may be eligible for. You do not have to take the maximum; you can specify the exact amount you require on the application. The application is found online at <a title=\"FAFSA link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.studentloans.gov\/\">www.studentloans.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to working with you this year.\u00a0 Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-315\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/files\/2012\/02\/Alvarez-Kristinacrop2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-315\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/files\/2012\/02\/Alvarez-Kristinacrop2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristina Alvarez, Assistant Director of Financial Aid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-309\" style=\"width: 154px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/files\/2012\/02\/MasseCarolsmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-309 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/files\/2012\/02\/MasseCarolsmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/files\/2012\/02\/MasseCarolsmall.jpg 426w, https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/files\/2012\/02\/MasseCarolsmall-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carol Masse, Executive Director of Financial Aid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:carolmasse@miad.edu\">carolmasse@miad.edu<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 414-847-3270<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:kristinalavarez@miad.edu\">kristinalavarez@miad.edu<\/a>\u00a0 414-847-3271<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to take this opportunity to introduce my new Assistant Director of Financial Aid.\u00a0 Her name is Kristina Alvarez.\u00a0 Kristina brings to MIAD 5 years of financial aid experience, excellent customer service and a true willingness to assist students and their families. Please feel free to contact Kristina or me if you have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/2012\/02\/22\/new-expertise-changes-to-fafsa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Expertise and Changes to FAFSA!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}