"The school year is coming to an end and that means seniors are getting ready to graduate. But college hopefuls are having issues with FAFSA. “About 20% of the FAFSA had issues with the IRS,” said Kory Lowe, School Counselor at Wicomico County Public Schools," ABC 47 reports.

..."The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators says the struggles are impacting data integrity, pushing applicants past deadline, and breaking trust.

'The rollout of the new FAFSA has been plagued by issues of broken trust, data integrity, and missed deadlines.

We note that the Department quickly acknowledged and investigated these data mismatch issues when they were identified by the financial aid community. But we must also emphatically reiterate that every day matters, and with hundreds of thousands of FAFSAs needing to be reprocessed, even more delays for students are coming.

Continually taking two steps forward and one giant step back is not a sustainable pathway toward getting financial aid offers out to students and families.' – Justin Draeger, CEO and President of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators."

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Publication Date: 4/3/2024