Students at a workshop for help with their FAFSA form in Washington on March 16. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) It’s a depressingly familiar Washington story: A well-meaning update of a ...

Big changes are coming this month to FAFSA. While many students and families may be eligible for more financial aid, others will likely have to pay more.

More: How Riverside County high schoolers can gain direct admission to Cal State FAFSA 2025-26 is delayed. Here's what that means for California students Around this time of year, students often ...

Colleges and universities are reporting more errors in FAFSA applicant data coming from the Education Department, adding to the rocky rollout of new financial aid form.

The FAFSA form usually goes live on Oct. 1. But, this year, the FAFSA underwent a top-to-bottom revamp meant to make the form simpler and to expand eligibility. The process ran behind.

As delays to the FAFSA rollout piled up, so did an unusual number of errors, both on student forms and in the Education Department’s eligibility calculations. Up to 16 percent of the 7 million Free ...

Education FAFSA simplification means delays, but possibly more money, for Oregon college students Updated: Oct. 14, 2023, 10:40 a.m. | Published: Oct. 14, 2023, 7:00 a.m.

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona sent a letter to state governors on Monday urging them to prepare for the consequences of FAFSA delays by pushing back state financial aid application deadlines ...

College The FAFSA 'Soft Launch' Was a Confusing, Glitchy Disaster While the new version of the financial aid form was supposed to simplify the process, it has instead been riddled with technical ...

By late last month, 21,290 students in Colorado had submitted FAFSA forms to the U.S. Department of Education, down 26.9% from the prior academic year, according to National College Attainment ...

Even with the nation’s best FAFSA completion rate for the class of 2021 at 73%, Louisiana’s 27% of seniors who did not complete the form left an estimated $45 million in Pell Grants on the table.

FAFSA redesign streamlines process, simplifies language The redesigned form is intended to ease the process of applying for financial aid, simplifying the language on the application and paring it ...