/api/aid/appeal-checkFinancial-aid appeal screen (US federal aid / FAFSA): routes a situation to the correct legal lane — HEA §479A professional judgment (job loss, medical, divorce, disaster), dependency override, unsub-only certification, or homeless-youth determination — with statutory citations, the documentation checklist, deny-risk screens (IPA medical math, era gates), and honest non-qualifier answers. Deterministic, no LLM.
Financial-aid appeal screen — lane routing with statutes (deterministic, $0.50)
Routes a student/family situation to the correct US federal aid-appeal lane: HEA §479A professional-judgment adjustment (job loss, medical expenses, divorce, disaster…), dependency override (20 USC 1087vv(d)(9)), unsubsidized-only certification (1087tt(a)(4)), or unaccompanied-homeless-youth determination. Returns statutory citations, the documentation checklist the statute names, deterministic deny-risk screens (IPA medical math, era gates incl. the OBBBA 2026-27 foreign-income strike, independence-by-statute short-circuits), leverage points (no-blanket-denial, no-fee rules), and honest non-qualifier answers with alternatives. No LLM — every conclusion is recomputable.
**Price:** $0.5 USDC per call
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{
"properties": {
"age": {
"description": "Student age — catches independence-by-age (24+) before appealing for nothing",
"required": false,
"type": "string",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
},
"award_year": {
"description": "Award year YYYY-YY (e.g. 2026-27; default current). Era-gated rules (OBBBA foreign-income strike eff. 2026-07-01) key off this",
"required": false,
"type": "string",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
},
"charged_fee": {
"description": "true if the school charged for the review — flags the 1087tt(a)(2)(B) no-fee rule",
"required": false,
"type": "string",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
},
"circumstance": {
"description": "What changed / the situation. One of: job_loss, dislocated_worker, income_drop_other, divorce_separation, death_of_provider, medical_expenses, k12_tuition, child_care, additional_in_college, severe_disability, homelessness, claimed_losses, forced_sale_farm_business, foreign_income, asset_change, qualifying_emergency, parental_abandonment, abusive_household, human_trafficking, refugee_asylee, parental_incarceration, unable_to_contact_parent, parents_refuse_support, parents_refuse_fafsa, unaccompanied_homeless, not_claimed_on_taxes, self_sufficient, standard_living_expenses, vacation_or_tithing",
"required": true,
"type": "string",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
},
"contact_poses_risk": {
"description": "Dependency-override gateway: true if contact with parent(s) poses a risk to you",
"required": false,
"type": "string",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
},
"emancipated_guardianship": {
"description": "true if emancipated or in court-ordered legal guardianship (1087vv(d)(3))",
"required": false,
"type": "string",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
},
"enrolled": {
"description": "true|false — currently enrolled or admitted/aid-eligible (PJ unavailable after ceasing eligibility)",
"required": false,
"type": "string",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
},
"foster_ward_orphan": {
"description": "true if orphan/ward of court/foster care at 13+ — already independent (1087vv(d)(2))",
"required": false,
"type": "string",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
},
"grad_student": {
"description": "true if graduate/professional student (1087vv(d)(5))",
"required": false,
"type": "string",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
},
"has_dependents": {
"description": "true if you have legal dependents other than a spouse (1087vv(d)(7))",
"required": false,
"type": "string",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
},
"income_after_usd": {
"description": "Income appeals: household income now/projected",
"required": false,
"type": "string",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
},
"income_before_usd": {
"description": "Income appeals: household income before the change",
"required": false,
"type": "string",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
},
"ipa_usd": {
"description": "Income protection allowance from the FAFSA Submission Summary/ISIR (for the IPA screen)",
"required": false,
"type": "string",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
},
"married": {
"description": "true if married and not separated (1087vv(d)(6))",
"required": false,
"type": "string",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
},
"medical_expenses_usd": {
"description": "Medical circumstance: out-of-pocket expenses — runs the deterministic IPA 11% deny-risk screen (FSA AVG Ch.5)",
"required": false,
"type": "string",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
},
"school_says_no_appeals": {
"description": "true if the school claims it does not do adjustments — flags the 20 USC 1087tt(a)(2)(A) blanket-denial prohibition",
"required": false,
"type": "string",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
},
"unable_to_contact_parent": {
"description": "Dependency-override gateway (1087vv(d)(9)): true if you cannot contact the parent(s)",
"required": false,
"type": "string",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
},
"veteran_active_duty": {
"description": "true if veteran or active duty (1087vv(d)(4))",
"required": false,
"type": "string",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
}
},
"required": [
"circumstance"
],
"type": "object"
}