The Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority, or KIYA, as it's called for short, is in the middle of a summer outreach program to help college students compete or complete their financial aid form before the fall semester begins.

Changes to the form have caused some delays.

More and today's look at education matters.

Here received some federal money to do a summer outreach push to try to encourage students to complete their finances and be ready for school this fall.

Part of that effort are FAFSA Tailgates, which are events being held at high schools and other local community places around the state.

And we're inviting students to come in and get the help they need to finish up the FAFSA.

And now we're planning a big kind of end of summer event called the FAFSA THON, which will be held on August 13th from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. at the Kentucky Castle in Sales.

Every tailgate is different, but depending on the tailgate that you're at, you're going to see a lot of different professionals there to help people thought the faster there's probably going to be food, snacks, games, all kinds of fun things.

I know some people have suggested that they're going to have 30, 60 cameras, photo booths, really fun things, far faster than is going to have a lot of different things going on.

We are going to have many different professionals that are answering phone calls, doing zooms.

You can walk in and get fast The help.

We were at the beginning of the summer, 17% behind in FAFSA filings as compared to to last year.

We have improved that rate some to 13% behind, but we don't want to leave those 13% behind.

And so we are really pulling out all the stops here and looking at creative and unique ways to to help students get over that hump and get to their post-secondary choice this fall.

College start dates for the fall are quickly approaching.

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So that's the push right now is to help students not miss this fall semester.

I think giving them a safe, fun place to come and have a lot of time with professionals to get it finished will help encourage them.

So the fun things are just an add on so that they feel comfortable when they're approaching us trying to get help.

He encourages students or families who need help to call 1888452 7322.