What is a Federal PIN?
Your Federal Student Aid PIN is the personal identification number you use when you visit certain U.S. Department of Education Web sites. For example, you can use your PIN to • sign your online Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) at www.fafsa.ed.gov; • review what federal student aid you have received in the past by visiting the National Student Loan Data System at www.nslds.ed.gov; • sign certain federal student loan contracts online; • find out whether your FAFSA has been processed at www.fafsa.ed.gov; or • correct information you reported on your FAFSA at www.fafsa.ed.gov. If you do not have a PIN, have lost or forgotten your PIN, or if you think someone else knows your PIN, you can request a new one at www.pin.ed.gov. If you are a dependent, one of your parents should have his/her own PIN to electronically sign your FAFSA and any correction you may need to make.
