"This isn’t the right kind of March madness. The Education Department’s confused rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or Fafsa, grew more chaotic Friday when it announced that incorrect data had been sent to colleges for hundreds of thousands of students," The Wall Street Journal reports.

... "Congress in its infinite unwisdom jammed through a Fafsa redesign in the December 2020 omnibus spending bill. The new Fafsa was supposed to be simpler, but myriad government snafus have caused headaches for colleges, parents and students. 'This is another unforced error that will likely cause more processing delays for students,' the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (Nasfaa) CEO Justin Draeger said Friday. 'At this stage in the game and after so many delays, every error adds up.'"

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Publication Date: 3/24/2024