The new, simplified Free Application for Federal Student Aid has been anything but simple so far. After a three-month delay, the FAFSA for the 2024-25 academic year opened a “soft launch” with limited ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New changes are on the horizon for students applying for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form for the 2024-2025 award year. The FAFSA is a form to get ...

Per the Fafsa, legal guardianship is when a student is under the court-ordered care of someone other than a parent or stepparent Becca Stanek is a contributor to Buy Side and an expert on insurance, ...

There are two important rules about getting federal aid for college: You must apply for it and the sooner you do, the better. The process starts by filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid ...

The U.S. Department of Education is rolling out a faster, easier way for students to apply for federal financial aid. Beginning with the upcoming application cycle, the new FAFSA system will include ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Free Application for Federal Student Aid for the 2026-27 school year has opened for a limited number of students as part of a beta test, the Department of Education says. The ...

This year's college financial aid process was supposed to be easier, after the U.S. Department of Education revamped the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, last year. Vanessa Cordova ...

The new FAFSA, or Free Application for Federal Student Aid, has remained mostly inaccessible to the public since "soft" launching online on December 30. But the hours it's accessible are getting ...

Fewer high school seniors could be headed to college this fall after a new “chaotic" and "beyond frustrating” FAFSA process appears to have led to a drop in the number of students applying for federal ...

When the FAFSA is paused, families may not be able to start or resume work on the form, which will be used to determine financial aid eligibility for the 2024-25 academic year. The form is expected to ...