There's one form prospective and current college students must submit in order to receive federal financial aid, and it looks a lot different than in prior years. The Free Application for Federal ...

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 ...

An American Express card is shown, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, in Atlanta. A combination of inflation, increased interest rates, and the end of pandemic-tied relief, such as the moratorium on student ...

The intent was to simplify the application process for federal financial aid and make more lower-income students eligible for it. But some are getting less. Catherine Mueller helps families complete ...

Students hoping to attend colleges and universities across the state are still waiting on financial aid packages after a new FAFSA form caused confusion. The FAFSA normally opens in October, but ...

In 2020, Congress passed the FAFSA Simplification Act — a bill that aimed to simplify the process of applying for federal financial aid for college. But the Biden administration botched the ...

Only three months after the application’s opening, Arizona’s high school class of 2026 is more than halfway to reaching the ...

After a two-month delay, the U.S. Education Department began sending FAFSA forms to colleges last week. College officials are eager to get to work, but slow pace and technical holdups threaten further ...

Almost 70,000 fewer Texas high school seniors have submitted the Free Application for Federal Student Aid forms often required to get money for college than this time last year — a trend that ...

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 ...