"The Free Application for Federal Student Aid should be further simplified by automatically including more data from IRS filings, including exploring whether wage information from W-2s could be used, the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators said Wednesday," Inside Higher Ed reports.

The group issued 13 recommendations on making the financial aid application process more streamlined and transparent, based on 10 policy papers it commissioned.

... 'While reauthorization of the Higher Education Act continues to move at a snail’s pace, it’s imperative that we keep forward momentum going and use this time to ideate, discuss, and coalesce around ideas that will have meaningful impact for needy students and families for years to come,' said NASFAA president Justin Draeger in a press release. 'Improving the FAFSA is a vital step to give college students the support they need to access postsecondary education.'"

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Publication Date: 8/6/2020