Penn College offers free FAFSA assistance sessions in November and January - NorthcentralPA.com

Williamsport, Pa. — The Financial Aid Office astatine Pennsylvania College of Technology volition big escaped FAFSA completion workshops to assistance students and families implicit their online applications.

The FAFSA workshops are disposable to immoderate pupil presently enrolled oregon readying to be immoderate assemblage oregon university. Students who are 23 oregon younger should beryllium accompanied by a parent. 

Colleges and universities necessitate the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to find eligibility for national and authorities grants, national loans, and immoderate scholarships. 

The sessions are scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 15, and Monday, Jan. 23, from 4 - 7 p.m. successful Room 202 of the college’s Madigan Library. One-on-one assistance successful the Financial Aid Office is besides disposable via appointment. Registration is required for some options.

Most first-time students tin implicit the FAFSA wrong 45 minutes. Attendees readying to taxable their FAFSA should make a pupil and/or genitor FSA ID astatine slightest 3 days anterior astatine www.studentaid.gov. They should besides bring copies of their 2021 fiscal documents, including national taxation returns, W-2 forms, untaxed income statements, grounds of kid enactment paid oregon received, and magnitude of their existent assets.

Financial Aid unit volition assistance pupil and genitor taxpayers usage the IRS Data Retrieval Tool, which allows FAFSA filers to electronically transportation national taxation instrumentality accusation into the FAFSA.

“Our Financial Aid squad is excited to erstwhile again big this important event,” said Jessica S. Hunter, manager of fiscal assistance astatine Penn College. “Completing the FAFSA is essential. It’s the cornerstone exertion successful the fiscal assistance process. Our extremity is to assistance each pupil found a instauration that puts them successful presumption to maximize each fiscal assistance resources. We recognize that the fiscal assistance process tin beryllium stressful, but we are present to assistance students and their families successfully navigate the process.”

To registry for the FAFSA completion league oregon one-on-one in-office assistance, sojourn www.pct.edu/finaid, email finaid@pct.edu oregon telephone the Financial Aid Office astatine (570) 327-4766.