The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is the form that needs to be filled out for you to receive financial aid from the government for college. But filling out the FAFSA for divorced ...

Failing to accurately fill in your Social Security number is among missteps that could cause a processing delay.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A FAFSA fact sheet from a college information day at UC Berkeley in 2023. (Juliana Yamada / CalMatters) A few days before winter ...

A mom following popular FAFSA guides that tell families to spend down their savings before filing got a sharp reality check from Dave Ramsey about who those strategies actually benefit.

"Because there were technical difficulties with the FAFSA for the last two cycles, it's hard to say whether overall this has been a good thing for students," Claire Alasio, associ ...

T he message went out to 8,000 people. Late last week, a national college-access organization sent an urgent email to its members: Students who haven’t previously filed the Free Application for ...

The FAFSA Simplification Act is an initiative by the United States Department of Education to make applying for federal student aid easier for students. It is the first major redesign of the FAFSA ...

A few days before winter break, Lynda McGee, a college counselor at Downtown Magnets High School in Los Angeles Unified, got an unexpected visit from a student’s father. The man, a warehouse worker ...