Can We Reprint a FAFSA Submission Summary For a Paper FAFSA Filer?

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This guidance is not award-year-specific and applies across award years.

Yes. Electronic Announcement APP-25-11 states the following:

"Financial Aid Administrators (FAAs) may request the reprint of a FAFSA Submission Summary on behalf of the student, with the option to indicate it be mailed to either the student’s address on file (as entered on the FAFSA form) or to a new mailing address.

FAAs should coordinate with the student to determine where the student would like the reprint sent. The Department expects that this feature may be especially necessary for incarcerated students. In these cases, FAAs should work with both the student and the student’s correctional facility to determine the best address to send the FAFSA Submission Summary reprint. If the student elects to have the reprint sent to an address other than what is on the FAFSA form (e.g., the school’s mailing address), the address provided for the reprint will not overwrite the address on the FAFSA record. 

FAAs can access this new feature in FPP by searching for a specific student, selecting the applicable transaction, and clicking the “FAFSA Submission Summary Reprint” button that displays underneath the Transaction Details section."

According to guidance NASFAA has received from the U.S. Department of Education (ED), if a student has an email address associated with their Institutional Student Information Record (ISIR) transaction, they are not eligible for a FAFSA Submission Summary (FSS) reprint. The school can make a correction and remove the email address. Once the new transaction processes, the school can request the reprint. ED is reevaluating this process to hopefully make it more straightforward in the future. Until then, the school should continue to follow these steps.

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