Resources for Financial Assistance Administrators

Program Guidance

2025-26 Program Guidance

• 2025 Legislative Session Overview & 2025-26 Guidance 05/21/2005
• 2025-26 SB5167 - Conference Budget Information 05/14/2025
• 2025-26 SAI Formula A Miscalculation for WASFA Filers 04/03/2025
• 2025-26 Financial Aid Guidance – Bridge Grants and Income Offsets 01/24/2025

2024-25 Program Guidance

• 2024-25 and 2025-26 WASFA ISIR Field Error 06/23/2025
• 2024-25 WASFA Corrections Guidance 06/11/2025
• WCG-Connect Resources and Outreach
  • EcSA Flyer
• 2024-25 Official Guidance for Reprocessed ISIRs 01/16/2024
• 2024-25 Summer 1 CBS and Bridge Grant Awarding Guidance 10/01/2024
• 2024-25 Updated WCG-C FAQs 09/16/2024
• 2024-25 Official Guidance on Data Hierarchy for calculating Median Family Income and Family Size 09/11/2024
• 2024-25 Official Guidance on CSAW Data Elements 08/30/2024
• 2024-25 Official Guidance on Proration of COA and SAI 07/15/2024
• 2024-25 Official Guidance on Family Size Assumptions 05/16/2024
• 2024-25 Official Guidance on Emergency Aid 05/15/2024
• 2024-25 Repayment Policy Options for PPA
• 2024-25 Passport Awards and Student Support Funds 04/26/2024
• 2024-25 Official Guidance Awarding Based on ISIR Corrections 04/18/2024
• 2024-25 Official Guidance on State SAP Policy 04/17/2024
• 2024-25 Official Guidance on Summer 1 (Header) Awarding_04/02/2024
• Better FAFSA/WASFA FAQs
• 2024-25 Official Guidance on Family Size - 11/16/2023

2025 Legislative Session

Legislative Program Guidance – May 21, 2025

• 2025 Legislative Session Overview & 2025-26 Guidance

Residency

Residency

Residency information can be found on our Residency page.

Program Manuals, MFI & Award Charts

Program Manuals, MFI & Award Charts

• Washington College Grant and College Bound Program Manual (2025-26)
• Passport to Careers Program Manual (2024-25) (2023-24)
• Washington College Grant, Washington Bridge Grant, and College Bound Scholarship Program Manual (2024-25)
  • MFI Chart for WCG and CBS Awarding (2025-26)
  • MFI Chart for WCG, Bridge Grant, and College Bound Awarding (2024-25)
  • Maximum WCG and College Bound Awarding (2025-26)
  • Maximum WCG, Bridge Grant, and College Bound Awarding (2024-25)
  • Enrollment Intensity Charts (2024-25)
  • CSV sample file for CSAW Interim Reports (incremental uploads) (2024-25)
• WA Grant for Apprenticeship Manual (2024-25) (2023-24)
  • MFI and Award Chart for WG-A (2025-26) (2024-25)
  • CSV Sample File Layout for WG-A Apprentice Awards (2024-25)
• Educator Workforce Program (2024-25)
• National Guard Postsecondary Education Grant (2024-25)
• State Work Study Program Manual (2024-25) (2023-24)
• WAVE/Washington Award for Vocational Excellence (2024-25)

WSAC Portal Updates

2024-25 Updates

• 2024-25 CSAW Update: Upload Page 06/16/2025
• 2024-25 CSAW All Awards Report and Rejected Overrides Updates 04/14/2025

Financial Aid Workshops

Financial Aid Workshops

• 2025-26 Legislative Overview and General Session (Video coming soon) (PDF)
• 2025-26 Adult Pathways Overview: Educator Workforce, National Guard Grant, State Work Study, WG Grant for Apprenticeship Programs (Video coming soon) (PDF)
• 2024-25 Awarding – June 2024 (YouTube) (PDF)
• 2025-26 Passport (Video coming soon)
• 2022 Residency & WASFA for Public Institutions (YouTube) (PDF)
• 2022 Residency & WASFA for Private Institutions (YouTube) (PDF)

Webinars

Webinars

• Final Interim Report Walkthrough and Q&A – June 2025 (YouTube) (PDF)
• Spring Interim Report Walkthrough and Q&A – April 2025 (YouTube) (PDF)
• Winter Interim Report Walkthrough and Q&A – January 2025 (YouTube) (PDF)
• Fall Interim Report Walkthrough and Q&A – September 2024 (YouTube) (PDF)
• The College Bound Eligibility Checker – November 2023 (YouTube) (PDF)
• 2023 Passport to Careers Spring Financial Aid Workshop Recording (YouTube)
• State Work Study – Program Updates and Portal Walk-through (YouTube) (PDF)
• All About the WASFA - June 2023 (YouTube) (PDF)
• Washington College Grant - Connect (WCG-C) - June 2023 (YouTube) (PDF)
• Interim Reporting (YouTube) (PDF)
• Uploading Files to CSAW (YouTube) (PDF)
• Reconciliation Tools in the Portal (YouTube) (PDF)
• Secure Messaging/Data Transmission (YouTube) (PDF)
• Managing Portal Users and Access (YouTube) (PDF)

Financial Aid & Literacy Curriculum

Financial Aid & Literacy Curriculum

• Financial Aid 101 (English) (Spanish)

Program guidance

Program guidance

2023-24

• Official Guidance on High School Requirements at Verify 04/25/2024
• College Bound Eligibility Checker FAQs
• WCG-Connect Resources and Outreach
  
  • WCG-C FAQs
  • WA Grant Emails
  • HEN Tri-Fold
  • ABD Tri-Fold
  • SNAP Tri-Fold
• Financial Aid Offer Guidance
  
  • Glossary for Washington State Financial Aid Terms 2023
  • NASFAA Glossary Financial Aid Terms 2023

2022-23

• 2023 WCG award amounts - 01/13/2023
  
  • Updated Guidance to WCG Award amounts effective immediately
• 2022-23 Official Guidance on WCG for Apprenticeship
• 2022-23 Official Guidance on Washington Bridge Grant
  
  • Washington Bridge Grant Q & A’s
• 2022-23 Official Guidance on MFI & Award Charts

Legislative sessions

Legislative sessions

2024

• 2024.03.12 Legislative Program Guidance
  • 2024-25 Legislative Overview Memo
  • 2024-25 Enrollment Intensity Calculator
  • 2024-25 Enrollment Intensity Charts

2023

• 2023.04.27 Legislative Program Guidance
  • 2023-24 Legislative Overview Memo (Updated May 1, 2023)
  • 2023-24 Preliminary WCG and WA Bridge Grant Award Chart
  • 2023-24 Preliminary WCG, College Bound and WA Bridge Grant Award Chart
  • 2023-24 Preliminary MFI Chart

2022

• 2022.03.17 Legislative Program Guidance
  • 2022-23 Legislative Overview Memo
  • 2022-23 Post-Session Tracker

Residency

Residency

Additional residency information can be found on our Residency page.

• 2022.04.14 SB 5874 Official Residency Guidance
• 2021.07.14 Residency Guidance Email
• 2021.07.14 Residency Guidance Memo
• 2021.06.07 Residency Guidance

COVID-19 guidance

COVID-19 guidance

• 2022.09.15 2022-23 Standard State Academic Progress Requirements
• 2022.02.11 2021-22 Covid-19 Guidance Reminder
• 2021.11.03 SAP Guidance Through 2021-22 Academic Year
• 2021.07.30 SAP Guidance Through December 2021
• 2021.07.14 Changes to Verification Processes - State Aid
• 2021.07.14 Undocumented Student Relief Grant
  • Reporting Guidance Memo
  • Reporting Guidance Email
• State Work Study & COVID-19 FAQ
• 2021.06.24 State Aid and Vaccine Incentive Scholarship Guidance
• 2021.05.26 Undocumented Student Relief Grant Guidance
  • Revised Guidance
  • Memo Revised Guidance
• 2021.03.01 Undocumented Student Relief Grant Guidance
  • Guidance and Next Steps
  • Memo Guidance
• 2020.12.16 Guidance Through June 2021 - COVID-19
• 2020.10.23 SWS Interpretive Statement
• 2020.10.23 2020-21 SWS Guidance & FAQs
• 2020.08.24 Guidance Through December 2020 - COVID-19
• 2020.07.15 Summer SAP Guidance - COVID-19
• 2020.04.22 Spring SAP Guidance - COVID-19
• 2020.04.14 Cares Act Funding and State Aid Email
• 2020.04.02 Additional SAP Guidance Email
• 2020.03.31 SAP Email
• 2020.03.27 Email
  • COVID-19 Communications - SWS FAQs
  • Passport Incentive Grant guidance memo
  • Passport-BTFP supporting students during COVID-19