{"id":2723,"date":"2017-10-11T21:03:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T21:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/financialaid\/?p=2723"},"modified":"2017-10-11T21:28:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T21:28:51","slug":"prior-prior-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/financialaid\/2017\/10\/11\/prior-prior-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Prior-Prior Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prior-Prior Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Starting with the 2017-2018 FAFSA, families will now use tax data from two years ago. For 2017-2018, FAFSA families will once again use 2015 tax data. This is referred to as \u201cPrior-Prior\u201d Year data because it uses tax data from two years before the academic year. For 2018-2019 FAFSA, families will use 2016 tax data; for 2019-2020, families will use 2017 tax data, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Along with this change, the Department of Education is changing when the FAFSA is available for families to complete. Beginning with the 2017-2018 year, the FAFSA will become available for families to complete on October 1<sup>st<\/sup> of each year. Therefore, families can begin applying for aid (using accurate completed tax data) approximately one year prior to the academic year in question.<\/p>\n<p>All families are encouraged to use the Data Retrieval Tool (DRT) to link their taxes to their FAFSA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior-Prior Year Starting with the 2017-2018 FAFSA, families will now use tax data from two years ago. For 2017-2018, FAFSA families will once again use 2015 tax data. This is referred to as \u201cPrior-Prior\u201d Year data because it uses tax data from two years before the academic year. For 2018-2019 FAFSA, families will use 2016 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3691,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions\/3691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}