REMINDER: Deadline to submit FAFSA form is March 1

The U.S. Department of Education office of Federal Student Aid wants to remind you that the deadline to submit a FAFSA form is March 1.

Submitting FAFSA is crucial because it's used to determine student's eligibility for federal grants, work-study funds and loans. Also, some states, colleges, and private scholarship organizations use FAFSA information to determine their financial aid, which may be awarded on a first come, first served basis.

To fill out and submit the FAFSA form, you can click on fafsa.gov[studentaid.gov] or access the form through the myStudentAid mobile app.

There's also a number of ways to receive help filling out FAFSA:

• access enhanced help topics on the FAFSA form,
• visit StudentAid.gov/resources[studentaid.gov],
• use our virtual assistant, Aidan,
• tweet @FAFSA[twitter.com], and
• speak with a customer service representative at 1-800-4-FED-AID (1-800-433-3243; TTY for the deaf or hard of hearing 1-800-730-8913).