Everyone who submitted a FAFSA for the 2024-2025 school year faced ... The government watchdog found that the department neglected to thoroughly test the application last year and that senior ...

The most recent FAFSA rollout has been plagued with delays ... Students who are part of that test period won't have to resubmit their form when it officially opens. "We've heard from students ...

Officials indicated that the FAFSA will be ready for a "limited set of students and institutions" on Oct. 1. They said they plan to test it for errors, before slowly making it widely accessible to ...

However, this is not a normal year. "I would not be volunteering — if it were me — for this test FAFSA process beginning in October," Vasoncelos says. "We've just seen so many issues this past ...

Higher ed institutions are partnering with the department as well, taking the early FAFSA forms in for processing to test their systems and crossing their fingers that it goes smoother than last year.

This phased approach is meant to test and resolve issues before the complete form goes live, officials said in a press release. "Following a challenging 2024-25 FAFSA cycle, the Department ...

Singer, who leads FAFSA strategy within the department’s ... and that the goal is to “test the system end-to-end.” Singer said that in later beta tests, the department will also partner ...

When the 2024–25 FAFSA form launched in December 2023 ... It was nearly impossible for the department to independently test the systems or regularly assess the progress of our contractors. And when we ...

In the first round of testing, about 650 high school students helped test the FAFSA through the first half of October. Another 3,500 students, including students already enrolled in college ...

This fall, the new form has been released in phases, to test how well it works, and the U.S. House overwhelmingly passed an act requiring the FAFSA to be released by Oct. 1 every year, a measure that ...

While there won't be a quiz or test, it's a good idea to brush up on FAFSA income limits in 2023 and some other considerations for FAFSA loans. Image source: Getty Images. Fortunately for students ...