The Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as the FAFSA, officially opened Thursday for students seeking financial aid for college during the 2025-2026 school year. The form traditionally ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — 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 department ...

Significant changes are coming to the Fafsa—the Free Application for Federal Student Aid—for the 2024-25 academic year. There has been a continuing effort to make the Fafsa—the filing that college ...

Many students have spent their summers on edge, as delays and glitches in this year’s FAFSA form have run up against the start of the fall semester. Many college students have spent their summer ...

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 ...

Roughly 55 percent of this year’s high school graduating class applied for federal financial aid, a significant comeback after the glitchy rollout of a new version of the form last year. But even with ...

Eligibility for federal student financial aid is primarily based on income as reported for tax purposes. However, tax-exempt interest income can impact a student's financial aid eligibility. Interest ...

Per the Fafsa, legal guardianship is when a student is under the court-ordered care of someone other than a parent or stepparent Written By Written by Contributor, Buy Side Becca Stanek is a ...

This year, students applying for financial aid using the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form were met with delays following significant changes to the form, leading Brown to extend its own ...

A calculation error with the 2024-25 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) sent incorrect data to colleges processing financial aid awards, impacting ...

The challenge is not just the cost of tuition these days, though recent headlines reveal some schools to be pushing $100,000 a year. But even when the means exist to defray that cost, applicants and ...