AidRule AI • Financial Aid Intelligence

Financial aid rules are complicated.
FAI helps make them clear.

AidRule AI combines practical financial aid experience, trusted regulatory sources, and intelligent tools to help professionals reach clear, documented decisions.

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✓ Rule-versioned results✓ Calculation steps shown✓ Manual-review safeguards
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Meet FAI

Your Financial Aid Intelligence guide—built to explain the workflow, surface review points, and keep human judgment at the center.

Calculation tools

Choose a workflow

Each module is independently tested and tied to the authority used for its result.

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Loan Limits & Exceptions

Determine undergraduate, graduate, professional, and PLUS eligibility—including the July 2026 interim exception.

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Schedule of Reductions

Calculate reduced annual Direct Loan eligibility and compare term distributions.

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Return of Title IV Funds

Guided R2T4 calculations with timing, aid sequencing, and edge-case support.

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Cash Management

Disbursement timing, credit balance, authorization, and late-disbursement checklists.

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STATS & Earnings

Track program outcomes, reporting dates, warnings, and accountability milestones.

FAI Resolution Center

Look up the code. Understand the issue. Resolve it confidently.

Search all 364 federal 2026–27 FAFSA comment codes—including FPS C Flags and reject codes—and see why each code appeared and what action the school should take.

Comment code163FPS C Flag

NSLDS loan default

View the official student-facing comment, triggering condition, required resolution steps, and federal page citation.

NSLDS · Default · Resolution required
FAI Verification Center

Know what to collect for V1, V4, and V5.

Build a federal documentation checklist based on the student’s verification group, tax-information path, family-size record, and identity-verification method.

V1Financial informationV4IdentityV5Financial + identity
Regulatory library

Built on traceable authority

Every released calculator identifies the applicable law, regulation, Department guidance, rule-set version, and institutional policy choices.

Federal Student Aid2026-27 FAFSA Specifications Guide, Volume 7 - Comment CodesPDFFederal Student AidOBBBA implementation center↗NASFAAOB3 resources and training↗Student Aid Reference DeskPractitioner reference↗
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AidRule AI is available without a login or subscription. Voluntary contributions help cover hosting, source research, AI usage, and continued development for the financial aid community.

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