The College Students Fix Kit

Built for college and university students earning their own money.

This is the one lane tonight where the leak isn't a fee or a missed registration — it's a choice made without the second half of the information. This kit finds where the money leaks in your own work and gives you the steps and the words to close each one.

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The 5 leaks it covers

2 you can close it · 3 the other side owes it

• Choosing between work-study and a regular job without knowing the aid trade-offWhere to look first: Know the difference: work-study earnings are taken back out of the aid calculation for you - you don't have to claim anything. Regular-job earnings count as income.Keep it from coming back: Before taking any job, check the current year's allowance and your own expected yearly earnings.
  You can close it
• Filing the FAFSA late and missing limited work-study fundsWhere to look first: Look up three deadlines: your school's priority date (on its aid web page), your state's deadline, and the federal deadline (June 30).Keep it from coming back: File the FAFSA as soon as it opens each year, before your school's priority date.
  You can close it
• Work-study funding changes: what is a proposal vs. what is lawWhere to look first: Nothing has changed in current law: the federal government pays up to 75% of work-study wages and your school covers at least 25%.Keep it from coming back: Re-check the status each award year before planning around work-study income, and file the FAFSA by your school's priority date.
  The other side owes it
• Work-study award ceiling not tracked against your own earningsWhere to look first: Find your work-study award for this term in your school's aid portal.Keep it from coming back: Write your award amount down at the start of every term and check your running total each payday.
  The other side owes it
• Not asking the aid office to review your special circumstancesWhere to look first: Know the rule: your aid office can adjust parts of your aid calculation for your own situation (called professional judgment). Schools must tell students this option exists.Keep it from coming back: Any time your family's income or costs change during the year, tell the aid office in writing then, not after aid is set.
  The other side owes it

Free: one full leak from this kit

No sign-up, no email. Here is leak 1 of 5 exactly as it appears in the kit, so you can see what you get before you buy.

QUESTION TO MY FINANCIAL AID OFFICE:
Subject: Outside job vs. work-study - effect on my aid

Hello,

I'm deciding between my work-study position ([RATE]/hr, about [HOURS] hrs/week) and an off-campus job ([RATE]/hr, about [HOURS] hrs/week). I'm a [DEPENDENT / INDEPENDENT] student.

Could you tell me how earnings from the outside job would be treated in my aid for [NEXT YEAR], and whether there's anything I should know before I accept it?

Thank you,
[YOUR NAME]
[STUDENT ID] | [EMAIL]

That's 1 of 5. The other 4 come the same way in the kit: steps, words to send, a habit to keep each one closed.

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What people in this work look up

When college students earning their own money go looking for answers, they search things like “fafsa income limits”, “fafsa deadline”, “student refund check” and “work study pay”. Those searches turn up forms, averages and other people's numbers. This kit starts from your own records instead: the 5 places money leaks in this work, where to look first and the words to send to close each one.

What you get for each leak

• Numbered steps to close each leak
• Your part, spelled out
• Words you can use: letters and scripts, ready to send (fill in the brackets)
• A habit that keeps each leak from coming back
• An honest line on what the kit can't decide for you

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Questions people ask

What it can't decide for you

This kit works from your own records. It doesn't give legal, tax, licensing or financial advice, and it never tells you what to charge. Where a CPA, attorney, insurer or state board makes the call, the kit says so and gets your records ready for them.

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