"In late march, months into the Free Application for Federal Student Aid–rollout debacle that has thrown millions of students’ college plans into a state of flux, the Department of Education let universities know there was yet another issue," The Atlantic reports.

..."'The department is essentially saying, Go ahead and award somebody financial aid based on information that is inaccurate. It just completely goes against every instinct that we have as financial-aid administrators,' Jill Desjean, a senior policy analyst at the nonprofit National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, told me. 'We’re worried about risks. We’re worried about program integrity, we’re worried about taxpayer dollars and being stewards of those funds.' A week later, after fielding the complaints from administrators, the Department of Education said it would reprocess all of the incorrect applications; but if institutions did not want to wait, they could make students aid offers based on the old forms."

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Publication Date: 4/16/2024