Ask Kantro: Questions About Who Should be Reported on Your Family's FAFSA Submission

Grandma is now living with us, and is a dependant of my parents', should we report her on the FAFSA? Dad died and mom remarried, who should be on our FAFSA form, dad or step dad? Find out the answer to these burning financial aid questions and more on this week's Ask Kantro.

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How can you get a bigger financial aid package? Mark Kantrowitz, FastWeb’s own financial aid guru and one of the top financial aid experts in the country, answers that burning question and more.


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It's cheaper to save than to borrow. If you borrow instead of saving, you will pay twice as much. When you save, you get the interest, but when you borrow, you pay the interest."

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