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Instituted in 1980, the Department of Education oversees Federal Student Aid, the office responsible for financial aid disbursement ... loans and work-study opportunities. FAFSA is a federal ...

Other students impacted included those "who did not file a FAFSA, students who received their financial aid award package but had a remaining balance after receiving their disbursement ...

Federal Work-Study (FWS) is a type of financial aid offered to students who have demonstrated financial need as determined by their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). FWS employers ...

Stay tuned. Congress in December 2020 enacted a revised and supposedly simpler Fafsa. While the form is usually available by Oct. 1, the department didn’t launch the new form until late last ...

The announcement is yet another obstacle for students during what has been a turbulent rollout in the overhaul of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. Since the new form was ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are working to improve future rollouts of the federal student aid form known as the FAFSA. It comes after the Department of Education botched its ...

ATLANTA — Some Georgia students and families have been left in a precarious spot as they await financial aid decisions and disbursement ... for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).

The U.S. Department of Education’s free application for federal student aid (FAFSA) allows students to apply for funding and be considered a recipient of federal student aid. Here are the deadlines.