Two further FAFSA issues

 You may or may not have been following the ongoing issues with the new FAFSA (some of us have to live in this world alas), but the new form, which is finally out, but which is going to delay when colleges get information and thus can get back to families had two other issues highlighted recent I thought of interest:

• If you have or will have two kids in college, what had been the rule that the colleges split what the calculation thinks you can afford in half is no longer the case. (Gift link to the NY Times there) It's not yet clear how colleges are going to handle this--there's some hope that they'll make up the difference rather than have families decide that they simply cannot afford it--and only time will tell. 
  
  
• What all the changes didn't fix was the requirement that the parents have Social Security numbers to fill out the form. Children whose parents are immigrants thus cannot fill it out.

If this isn't you this year, cross your fingers they work it out!