Federal Loan Funding Gaps Modeling Tool
NASFAA has created a tool to help institutions estimate potential future funding gaps for currently enrolled students resulting from the changes to student and parent loan limits from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The goal of this tool is to help members use data from their internal systems to estimate Unsubsidized and Graduate PLUS loan funding gaps for Graduate and Professional students, as well as Parent PLUS funding gaps for undergraduate students.
The tool is in Excel format and is designed to be downloaded from NASFAA’s site to ensure that your institutional data is only accessed by the individuals you permit.
- Instructions for Using Federal Loan Funding Gaps Modeling Tool (.pdf)
- Please read the instructions carefully to understand how the tool works, assumptions used in modeling results, how to enter institutional data, and how to understand results.
- Federal Loan Funding Gaps Modeling Tool with Sample Data (.xlsx)
- Open this copy of the funding gaps modeling tool with sample data included to gain a sense of what you can learn from modeling your own students’ estimated funding gaps.
- Federal Loan Funding Gaps Modeling Tool (.xlsx)
- Download the funding gaps modeling tool and enter your own institutional data to estimate future federal loan funding gaps for your students.
Questions
Questions regarding the model may be directed to NASFAA's Policy Department at [email protected]. Please note, NASFAA is unable to assist individual institutions in obtaining data from their internal systems or in interpreting their results. Blue Icon Advisors may be of assistance to institutions in using this tool to model their loan funding gaps.
Publication Date: 2/17/2026
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