The 2020-2021 Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, may look a little different to students and families who have applied for college financial aid in prior years, whether they completed ...

Most soon-to-be college students know that submitting the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is required in order to receive financial aid for their education. Until recently, male ...

Documents obtained by The Times show the department’s troubled FAFSA rollout this year came in spite of early warnings that the project required sustained attention. By Zach Montague Reporting from ...

The Trump administration launched a new FAFSA form with 97% user satisfaction rate, allowing students to complete federal student aid applications in minutes for the 2026-2027 school year.

Colleges won’t start receiving students’ financial aid data from the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as the FAFSA, until the first half of March – more than a month later than expected ...

Each Fall marks the beginning of the college application and financial aid process for students and their parents and for those applying for financial aid for the first time (and some returning filers ...

Congress mandated in 2020 that the Education Department simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid to make it easier for families to complete. While the department met its Dec. 31, 2023 ...

A pandemic program allowed people to exclude the benefits from their income, but in some cases they are still being counted. Here’s what to do. By Ann Carrns Unemployment benefits helped millions of ...