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VMI financial-aid office details FAFSA delays and local mitigation steps
Summary
VMI financial-aid staff told the Board that FAFSA simplification and late system fixes forced manual corrections, created delayed awards and led to dozens of appeals; the institute used institutional funds to restore prior-year award levels for many affected students.
VMI’s financial-aid team told the Board of Visitors that nationwide implementation problems with FAFSA simplification disrupted award timing for incoming and returning students and required extensive manual work.
"FAFSA is delayed until December 1," the financial-aid lead said, describing repeated reopenings and reprocessing by the Department of Education. The office reported that federal batch-export and batch-correction tools were not functional for this cycle,…
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