A financial aid glitch prevented students whose parents lacked Social Security numbers from completing their federal applications.
We’re a big state with big challenges. Each morning we explain the top issues and how Californians are trying to solve them.Prospective college applicants and family members attend a financial aid information workshop at College Information Day at UC Berkeley on Oct. 14, 2023. Photo by Juliana Yamada for CalMattersAfter a federal financial aid glitch, students will have more time to apply for state aid.
Assemblymember Sabrina Cervantes, a Democrat from Corona and chair of the California Latino Legislative Caucus, rushed the bill to give affected California students additional time to complete the federal application, known as the FAFSA, and access more than $3 billion in state aid. The new law moves the current deadline fromlast week.
“The Legislature can highlight, double down on how unacceptable it is that certain U.S. citizens cannot submit a FAFSA,” said Gina Browne, a senior official with the California Community Colleges system,blocking some students from finishing their applications. Those include instances in which a parent’s — or spouse’s — name doesn’t totally match the forms both the parent and student must complete.The scale of the problem is hard to gauge.
The university plans to issue financial aid offers to students by mid-April, a month later than usual. Both the UC andhave extended their deadlines for students to commit to enrolling to their campuses by at least two weeks — May 15 — so that new undergraduates can compare their financial aid packages from the schools that admitted them.
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