Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Amid ongoing issues with the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form this year, the City University of New York (CUNY) is looking to help. FAST will begin April 12 and continue until the end of this September, a CUNY spokesperson said in an email. to be able to be walked through it. I think there’s a lot of merit in that.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Department of Education (ED) has updated how it calculates the amount of aid students will receive to be in full alignment with the FAFSA Simplification Act. Cardona said the update, the latest in ED’s 2024–25 Better FAFSA ® implementation, will not impact implementation timelines. Since the new 2024–25 FAFSA form became available Dec.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

Two political leaders allege that a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form error is preventing students with contributors, including parents and spouses, who do not have a Social Security Number from completing the U.S. Department of Education’s new FAFSA form.

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College Aid Services

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Financial aid offices now have access to the 2025–26 FAFSA Preview Presentation, which provides stakeholders with tools for financial aid nights and staff trainings. This resource has over 300 slides, reviews 12 different aspects of the FAFSA, and is available as a PowerPoint presentation as well as a PDF file.

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College Aid Services

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

8932, FAFSA Deadline Act, a proposed legislation that would amend the Higher Education Act of 1965. House of Representatives passed H.R.

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College Aid Services

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Department of Education (Department) announced today that it entered the final beta testing period of the 2025–26 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®), Beta 4, which will build on the successful results from the first three beta periods. 1, more than 14,000 students have successfully submitted their 2025–26 FAFSA forms.

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College Aid Services

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Beta testing for the 2025-26 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is officially available to a limited group of participants as the Department of Education announced in late August.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The FAFSA Simplification Act, scheduled to go into effect this year, will cut the number of questions on the notoriously difficult application for federal aid—which is also used in calculations for state and institutional awards—from 108 to 36 for most students. Weiner, president of Assumption.

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College Aid Services

AUGUST 26, 2024

Federal Student Aid has released the first four volumes of the 2025-26 FAFSA Specifications Guide. The volumes contained in this guide contain FAFSA Processing System (FPS) technical information for the 2025-26 award year and are only available as PDF documents at this time.

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College Aid Services

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Updated October 14th The Department of Education continues to beta test the 2025-26 FAFSA with a select group of institutions and students as the December 1 release date approaches. Here is the latest regarding the upcoming application, as detailed on the Updates page: 2025-26 FAFSA Beta Updates Oct.

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College Aid Consulting Services

JULY 25, 2023

Discover our Top 10 FAFSA Tips for Divorced Parents in 2024—expert guidance tailored for navigating college financial aid. These insights stem from frequent inquiries and our seasoned experience in aiding divorced parents with the FAFSA. Both parents’ income and assets are reported on the FAFSA, even if divorced and/or remarried.

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College Aid Services

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Federal Student Aid has updated Volume 9 of the 2025-26 FAFSA Specifications Guide to include the a test data file of a 2025-26 Institutional Student Information Record (ISIR). This file is for use in system testing by schools, state agencies, software providers, and other agencies and entities.

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College Aid Services

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Originally scheduled for release in August, Federal Student Aid announced yesterday that batch corrections will not be available for the 2024-25 FAFSA. Update on November 8, 2024: The Department previously indicated that the batch… More » FSA to Roll Out 2024-25 and 2025-26 FAFSA Batch Corrections by Early 2025 (Nov.

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College Aid Services

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Federal Student Aid will host a live internet webinar on November 8th to provide administrators with an update on processing for the 2024–25 FAFSA , beta testing for the 2025–26 FAFSA, and when the upcoming application will be available.

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College Aid Services

AUGUST 7, 2024

Department of Education (Department) today announced that the 2025-26 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA® form) will be launched through a new process. Starting on October 1, the Department will release the 2025-26 FAFSA form for testing with a limited set of students and institutions.

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College Aid Services

AUGUST 30, 2024

Institutions now have access to the 2024-25 FAFSA Verification-IRS Return Transcript Matrix to compare data between a selected family’s tax data and the information submitted through the FAFSA application. The matrix is currently available as an excel document and is divided into five specific sections.

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College Aid Services

MAY 20, 2024

Federal Student Aid confirmed this past Friday in an electronic announcement that it has successfully reprocessed FAFSA records that were negatively affected by issues with FPS and FA-DDX.

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College Aid Services

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Federal Student Aid has added Volume 7 – Comment Codes to the 2025-26 FAFSA Specifications Guide.

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College Aid Services

JULY 11, 2024

Noncitizens are eligible for federal aid through the FAFSA application if they fall within specific classifications—such as permanent resident, conditional entrant, or refugee, etc.—and and provide a valid Alien Registration number that is verified by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

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College Aid Consulting Services

JUNE 8, 2022

Here is an update on the FAFSA Changes For 2024-25. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) will see the majority of changes starting in the 2024-25 academic year and not in the 2023-24 year that was originally planned. However, the new FAFSA application will be released on Oct 1, 2022.

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Ed.gov Homeroom

APRIL 15, 2024

It’s FAFSA Week of Action (April 15-19) and to kick off the effort the U.S. Department of Education is thrilled to announce the launch our #FAFSAFastBreak campaign, a national effort to drive FAFSA submissions among high school seniors and returning college students. Everyone has an important role to play!

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CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The world of financial aid can be daunting, especially when it comes to understanding the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The FAFSA is the way that students qualify for federal grants, loans, and work-study opportunities. Filing the FAFSA 101: In the past, the FAFSA was available in the fall.

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College Aid Services

JUNE 18, 2024

FSA has released an electronic announcement to clarify how issues discovered during the 2024-25 FAFSA rollout would be treated in terms of conflicting information and the appropriate steps that Financial Aid offices should take.

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College Aid Services

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

If you are interested in being part of the 2025–26 FAFSA Beta, the Department has opened an interest form to complete. The purpose… More » Details released on how to join the 2025–26 FAFSA Beta test The post Details released on how to join the 2025–26 FAFSA Beta test first appeared on College Aid Services.

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College Aid Services

AUGUST 9, 2024

FSA acknowledged that this would cause significant delays for the small population of applicants who do not pass the initial identity verification… More » DHS Implements Temporary Fix to Address FAFSA Verification Backlog The post DHS Implements Temporary Fix to Address FAFSA Verification Backlog first appeared on College Aid Services.

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College Aid Services

JULY 31, 2024

Originally scheduled for release in August, Federal Student Aid announced yesterday that batch corrections will not be available for the 2024-25 FAFSA. This surprising announcement places a significant burden on Financial Aid Administrators and may cause further delays in granting aid to students.

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College Aid Services

APRIL 29, 2024

In the latest update from the Department of Education, detailed steps have been taken to rectify issues with the 2024-25 FAFSA forms linked to IRS FA-DDX data errors. The announcement highlights the successful reprocessing of nearly all affected records, ensuring institutions can now proceed with financial aid offers.

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College Aid Services

JULY 3, 2024

The ability for institutions to make and submit manual corrections to FAFSA records via the FAFSA Partner Portal (FPP) is now available. Unfortunately institutions have reported receiving error messages when attempting to submit corrections.

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College Aid Services

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Administrators now have access to the 2025–26 FAFSA® prototype, which is a web-based design tool where users can explore certain aspects of the official application as the Department of Education improves it over time.

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College Aid Services

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The Department is diligently working with the vendor to complete the remaining paper correction functionality, but we have encountered issues in testing that the vendor needs to address… More » 2024-25 Paper FAFSA Updates: Processing Delayed By Software Glitch (Oct. 1 Update) first appeared on College Aid Services.

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College Aid Services

JUNE 24, 2024

Federal Student Aid is hosting a virtual webinar where users will have the opportunity to watch a demonstration on how institutions will submit corrections through the FAFSA Partner Portal (FPP).

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CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Completing the FAFSA is one of the first steps that students and families must complete to start their journey to college. Last year, the FAFSA underwent some big changes and now, there’s a few more that families should know about before beginning to file their FAFSA. This includes federal loans, grants, and work study programs.

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College Aid Services

JANUARY 10, 2024

FSA announces that the 24-25 FAFSA will no longer be limited to specific time frames and families can access the form regularly as in previous years. Over one million applications have already been processed over the last few weeks since the FAFSA’s release and the Department encourages families to continue doing so.

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College Aid Services

AUGUST 20, 2024

Administrators now have access to several new resources that focus on making corrections in the FAFSA Partner Portal (FPP) now that it will replace FAA Access to CPS Online.

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College Aid Services

MAY 2, 2024

On May 1st, FSA announced that the Department will begin reprocessing 2024-25 FAFSA forms at the request of state agencies to address an issue with the order of school codes on the Institutional Student Information Record (ISIR). These reprocessed records will not result in changes to the student’s SAI or eligibility for federal student aid.…

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College Aid Services

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The federal government published a comprehensive guide to how Title IV institutions state grant agencies, and contractors can utilize personally identifiable information that they receive from the FAFSA Application. of Education Issues Guidance on Handling FAFSA Data When Administering Student Aid The post Dept.

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College Aid Services

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The 2025-2026 FAFSA Cycle is upon us! Join us for an in-depth look at the latest updates, as well as what remains unchanged in the new 2025-26 FAFSA application.

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