Future options include rolling out a 2025-2026 form earlier than the FAFSA’s October 1 date or using it as an educational tool for middle schoolers, ninth and 10 th graders “to prepare them ...

The Brief The FAFSA application to receive college financial aid for the 2025-2026 school year is officially open. It comes a year after the botched rollout of a new form last year delayed the ...

FAFSA is officially out, and everyone is cautiously optimistic After a turbulent rollout of last year’s financial aid form, Education Department hopes rigorous piloting this time around will ...

The new FAFSA form is out, but students should expect wait times to fill it out. The updated form includes revised formulas to grant eligibility and fewer questions to answer.

After a disastrous rollout of the new FAFSA form in January, the U.S. Department of Education is taking precautionary measures to avoid another fiasco.

The usually simple process of submitting the FAFSA form had now turned into a grueling three-month-long ordeal. System glitches and communication problems cause uncertainty Uriostegui is one of many ...

The 2025-2026 FAFSA form will first be released for testing with a smaller group of volunteer students and schools on Oct. 1, the U.S. Department of Education said Wednesday in a news release.

As of Tuesday morning, 167,000 applications had been successfully submitted. “The 2025-26 FAFSA form is ready for prime time and is available both online and on paper,” Cardona said.

The U.S. Department of Education reports that it has gotten more than 7.3 million of the forms and that more than 7.2 million have now been successfully processed.