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 ...

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 ...

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.

the agency that oversees the FAFSA. Some of the GAO’s findings have been public knowledge for months. Inside Higher Ed chronicled many of them in a wide-ranging investigation published in ...

The FAFSA Simplification Act introduced significant ... is less than $60,000 and the parents satisfy the type of tax return test. (This can also apply to independent students.) ...

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 ...

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid, also known as the FAFSA, is the form you file to find out if you’re eligible for federal student aid, as well as various state and institutional aid.

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 ...