Did you know that each year millions of dollars in grant money go unclaimed? According to Scholarship Points, there is one form of financial aid that does go unclaimed, and that’s the Federal Pell Grant. About three million students in 2013-14 who did not file the FAFSA would have qualified for a Federal Pell Grant. That’s just a few years ago! With college often taking more than four years, many of those students who didn’t file are likely still in school. Of them, 1.3 milli

The free application for federal student aid (FAFSA) is officially open for the 2018-2019 school year! If you're not familiar with FAFSA it is, in short, federal student aid funded by The U.S. Department of Education through a combination of grants, loans and work-study. Such aid is awarded to help with the costs of attending college (or a career school) by covering expenses such as tuition and fees, room and board and books and supplies. Financial aid is not solely limited t