Glossary/FAFSA

FAFSA

FAFSA is the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

It is how most people become eligible for Pell Grants, federal loans, and work-study. States and colleges lean on it too. File it on the official site. Paying a middleman is a bad product.

The free form. File it. Do not pay someone else to file it.

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