The U.S. Department of Education is urging parents to find other ways to fill out the financial disclosure portions of federal student aid forms while the IRS Data Retrieval Tool is down.
The department’s press office reported that security concerns prompted the government to take the popular tool, which imports information from individual tax returns into the financial aid applications, offline in March.
It is scheduled to return Oct. 1 on the online 2018-2019 Free Application for Federal Student Aid form.
