Distributing millions of grants and loans can be made more efficient, but without enough people, experts worry that things ...

"These workforce reductions raise serious questions about the future functionality of federal aid programs," student ... to replace the FAFSA, but that doesn't mean that at some point it can ...

How mass buyouts and layoffs at Trump's U.S. Department of Education might impact millions of students, teachers and ...

For most students and their families, financial aid is the most important factor in their decisions about college.

On Tuesday, Education Department officials said the agency’s workforce would be cut roughly in half, with over 1,300 workers ...

The fate of the FAFSA amid staff reductions The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), an essential tool for ...

The application for student aid could be reassigned to another federal agency, experts say. What to do if you need help ...

We've set out to answer other questions you might have about the Education Department, and what its downsizing might mean for your ... for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, suffered from delays ...

The Office of Federal Student Aid lost hundreds of career staffers ... and the loss of capacity could hamstring the FAFSA’s functionality. “FSA lost entire divisions within the technology office, ...

Contributors will be invited via email from FAFSA to complete their portion of the application. (Contributor information is required in determining a student’s federal aid eligibility, but it doesn’t ...

The temporary outage of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid — FAFSA — website sparked concerns that President Donald Trump has followed through on promises to shutter the Department ...