It keeps saying “Because of a system error, you cannot use your FSA ID to login to FAFSA on the Web. Try again later.” This really sucks since some stuff is due on the 15th… Anything I can do?
I also was wondering how many days before the deadline do I have to send in the FAFSA? It seems that it takes 3-5 days to process and would that mean it would not reach the school on time if I complete it on the exact date?
Try to use a different browser. Keep trying.
Is this your first FAFSA? If it is, try having your parent sign in with your birthday and soc sec number where it says " sign in with student’s information".
https://fafsa.ed.gov/FAFSA/app/fafsa?locale=en_US
Then maybe you and your parent can fill out the FAFSA and then try to sign it with your FSA IDs.
But really, the FAFSA has been available since October 1, why wait until now?
I don’t know the answer to your other question, but I would do the FAFSA asap.
What state do you live in and is there a deadline for aid there as well?
https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/about/announcements/login-issues. There is a temporary issue.
Maybe send the school an email with the above link explaining the outage, and then doing the FAFSA as soon as available.
But next year, do the FAFSA early.
Yup - having same problem for last few hours.
Thanks for the responses! Yeah I realized I made a dumb mistake waiting till now…
I got the same message all morning and it just cleared 15 minutes ago! So try again and I hope you’ll have better luck.
Thanks @LuckyCharms913! Love your profile pic btw!
We were minutes from submitting on Sat night when site went down for maintenance at midnight eastern. Haven’t tried back because we were out of town yesterday.