Get your FSA ID.
- An FSA ID gives you access to Federal Student Aid’s online systems and can serve as your legal signature.
- Only create an FSA ID using your own personal information and for your own exclusive use. You are not authorized to create an FSA ID on behalf of someone else, including a family member.
- To save time, create your FSA ID before your CollegeGoalNY event and bring it with you. Visit fsaid.ed.gov.
Gather this information.
Here is a checklist of the information and documents you should have with you as you complete the 2020-21 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
- Student’s social security number. Have the card to ensure the number is correct.
- Parents' social security number. Have the card to ensure the number is correct.
- Parents' dates of birth.
- Student's driver’s license number, if you have one.
- Student's Permanent Alien Registration Number, if not a U.S. citizen.
- Copy of student’s 2018 Federal Income Tax Return.
- Copy of parents’ 2018 Federal Income Tax Return.
- Records of student’s 2018 untaxed income from the following sources of income:
- Child support payments received in the student’s name
- Interest income
- Veterans non-education benefits
- Social security benefits in the student’s name
- Records of parents’ 2018 untaxed income from the following sources of income:
- Child support payments received in the student's name; do not include foster care
- Tax exempt interest income
- Veterans non-education benefits o such as disability, death pension, etc.)
- Untaxed portion of pension benefits; exclude rollovers
- Untaxed payments to tax deferred pensions and retirement savings plans (on W-2)
- Untaxed portion of IRA distributions; exclude rollovers
- Untaxed portion of IRA deductions
- Housing, food and other living
- allowances pd. to members of the military, clergy & others
- Other untaxed income, such as workers’ compensation & disability (not untaxed SS benefits)
- FSA ID
- For student and one parent.
- Valid email address, if available.