State officials hope to help students whose college dreams are endangered by glitches and delays affecting the federal financial aid application, or FAFSA.
California lawmakers are speedily moving forward toward approving a bill that would extend a key college financial aid deadline by a month to help students whose applications have been mired in problems at the federal level. The deadline for Cal Grants and other state aid programs — that collectively dole out more than $2.3 billion — would be pushed back from April 2 to May 2 under legislation that would take effect immediately.
“So I’m supposed to sit there and talk a parent into sending something very private like their personal documents to some generic email?” College financial aid workers also are feeling the strain. 'The problem has put a lot of pressure on our staff because of the urgency to get financial aid offers on the streets,' said Jose Aguilar, executive director of financial aid for UC Riverside. The bill moving forward does not affect issues at the federal level.
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