Financial-aid appeal screen (US federal aid / FAFSA): routes a situation to the correct legal lane — HEA §479A professional judgment (job loss, medical, divorce, disaster), depende

Financial-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.

price-ascending: candidates are ordered by the listed price of the operation, with no managed-first preference applied. Unlike /v1/apis, this surface does not rank Apiosk-settled listings above federated ones — a comparison that reorders on commercial grounds is not a comparison. Pass sort=managed_first for the catalog's ordering.

Compared: listed price, settlement rail and input compatibility. Not measured yet: latency, reliability, result quality, and provider terms such as rate limits, jurisdiction and licensing.