After a complicated and delayed launch last year, the Department of Education released the 2024-25 Free Application for ...

The U.S. Department of Education opened the FAFSA form to all students ahead of schedule. Unlike the last FAFSA cycle, the ...

The money for the fall semester normally arrives in September. By the last week of November, with the end of the semester in sight, Elizabeth Rousseau was still waiting. Rousseau, a student at Penn ...

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Families can now access the 2025-2026 Free Application For Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, earlier than expected, but it comes on the heels of a disastrous revised rollout last year.

Polk State's switch to the Ellucian Banner system in late June has yielded problems with student registration and faculty ...

This year FAFSA has a shorter, improved and mostly error-free process following a delayed and glitchy rollout last year.

After a trouble-plagued application overhaul, U.S. Department of Education officials have released next year’s Free ...

Despite how high student loan debt has gotten in the United States, billions of dollars in Pell Grants still went unclaimed ...

Congresswoman Erin Houchin’s FAFSA Deadline Act, has passed the House of Representatives with a near-unanimous bipartisan ...