VASFAA upcoming events

2026 Leadership Summit (02 Nov 2026)

Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Join us for a day filled with idea sharing and comradery! This is a great time for FA directors/leaders to connect and discuss some of the hot topics in financial aid and higher education.

Agenda!

Date: Monday, November 2nd, 2026

Location:

UVA

Sycamore Hill - Old Dominion Room

Charlottesville, VA

Summit Cost: $45 per participant. Lunch included.

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We hope you will join us for this exciting in-person opportunity for professional development and growth!

Webinar: Verification of FAFSA Tax Items (13 Nov 2026)

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Verification of FAFSA Tax Items

Friday, November 13 at 1:00PM

Webinar Description:

In our second webinar, we will look at the 2027-2028 V1 FAFSA data to be verified and documentation requirements for each data element. This will include what to do when the FA-DDX successfully matches a contributor’s section of the FAFSA to their IRS record, and the IRS has populated their ISIR with Federal Tax Information, and what to do when there is no FTI in the contributor’s record. We will discuss amended tax returns, identity theft, rollovers, foreign non-filers, and other unusual situations that might come up. Requirements for both 1040 filers, foreign and territory tax return filers, domestic non-filers, and foreign non-filers will be covered.

Note: we are assuming that V1 verification will continue into 2027-2028. In the unlikely event that V1 verification is retired, we will publish a replacement agenda.

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Webinar: Who Must File, Filing Status, and What’s New Since the Last Webinar (16 Dec 2026)

Wed, 16 Dec 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Who Must File, Filing Status, and What’s New Since the Last Webinar

Wednesday, December 16 at 10 AM

Webinar Description:

In the third and final webinar of the series, we will look at any updates the Department of Education (ED) has provided since the earlier two webinars. Our focus, though, will be a discussion of the two tax concepts that financial aid administrators are required to understand: who is required to file a tax return, and what is the correct filing status for a person.

When discussing the question of which taxpayers are required to file a tax return, we will look at how the documentation collected when a non-filer is selected for verification should be reviewed, including discussions of gross income, and include subject to direct payment of employment taxes (self-employment income and household employee income).

Our discussion of filing status will focus on those aspects of filing status that are most often incorrect: head of household filing status used by married couples, and single status used by married individuals.

The content of this final webinar in the series may change if ED makes significant changes to 2027-2028 aid processing that were not covered in the earlier webinars

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2027 VASFAA Annual Conference (25 Apr 2027)

Sun, 25 Apr 2027 04:00:00 GMT

2027 VASFAA In-Person Annual Conference

When: April 25 - 28, 2027

Where:Kalahari Resorts & Conventions
Spotsylvania County, VA
www.kalahariresorts.com