WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Department of Education said Friday that it has identified a vendor’s calculation error impacting several hundred thousand financial aid ...

Eligibility for federal student financial aid is primarily based on income as reported for tax purposes. However, tax-exempt ...

The FAFSA is open and so far without the problems of the last two years, but for families who have had big income changes, the form is just the first step. Here is how you can appeal for more aid ...

How Do You Calculate The Value Of Your Assets For FAFSA? This question is about how to fill out the FAFSA. Every year, families fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to ...

Students who needed aid the most were among the hardest hit after the Education Department bungled the rollout of the new federal financial aid form, known as the Free Application for Federal Student ...

Previously, the parent that the student lived with the most during the past 12 months would file the FAFSA. Now, instead of the custodial parent completing the FAFSA, the parent who provided the most ...

Later in January, the Department of Education made a last-minute fix to tie the new financial aid calculation to the latest inflation data. The adjustment made $1.8 billion more in financial aid ...