Financial aid professionals from Olivet Nazarene University and the Illinois Student Assistance Commission (ISAC) will assist students and their families in completing the 2012-13 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) application on Saturday, February 18, 2012. They will also be available to explain the financial aid process and answer any questions.
This workshop is open to the community and will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. in the main computer lab (Room 103) of Olivet’s Weber Center on campus. There is no charge to attend.
Illinois State Senator Toi Hutchinson is co-hosting this event with Olivet and ISAC, and she will be present at the event. A public servant for more than 15 years, she has served the 40th district of Illinois since January 2009, representing portions of Cook, Iroquois, Kankakee and Will counties.
Families of current or potential college students need to complete the FAFSA as the starting point for the financial aid process — federal and state. Usually submitted in February to meet the March 1 deadline, the FAFSA uses a family’s financial information from the previous calendar year. Tax records, as well as other financial information, are needed to complete it.
Those attending this workshop must bring the following items with them:
•2011 tax information (parents’ and students 1040A and/or 1040EZ Federal Tax Return and W-2 forms)
•Student’s and parents’ (and stepparents’) driver’s license, Social Security card and alien registration number (if applicable)
•Records of untaxed income (welfare, social security, TANF, veterans’ non educational benefits, etc.)
•Current bank statements
•Current mortgage information for any properties other than the family’s principal residence
•Financial records of business, farm (if not family’s principal place of residence) and other assets (stocks, bonds, and other investments)
•Calculator
Two items need special attention by attendees before they arrive at the workshop:
•If your federal taxes are not yet completed for 2011, bring your 2010 tax forms and your 2010 W-2's so you can get an estimate on tax information.
•Complete the FAFSA worksheet at http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/fotw1213/pdf/fafsaws13c.pdf before you come to the workshop. This will help make the event more productive for you.
For more information about the FAFSA process, go to http://www.fafsa.ed.gov. To apply for a PIN number, go to http://www.pin.ed.gov/PINWebApp/pinindex.jsp.
For more information about the event, contact Jordan Fish, director of new student financial assistance for Olivet, at 815-939-5126 or jfish1@olivet.edu, or go to http://www.olivet.edu.
Olivet Nazarene University is an accredited Christian, liberal arts university offering more than 100 areas of undergraduate and graduate study, including the Doctor of Education in ethical leadership. Olivet has one main campus in Bourbonnais, Ill. — just 50 miles south of Chicago; three sites: Rolling Meadows and Oak Brook, Ill., and Hong Kong; and more than 100 School of Graduate and Continuing Studies learning locations throughout Chicagoland and the Midwest. From Oxford to Tokyo, hundreds of Olivet students also experience the global classroom each year, whether through study abroad opportunities or worldwide mission trips.
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