"The Education Department’s new deadline for the launch of the 2025-26 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) forms is leaving advocacy groups in a tough spot as they say the move is the best of bad options but brings up feelings of dread after the FAFSA situation last year," The Hill reports.

..."While the department is promising the Dec. 1 deadline will mean fully operational applications for everyone, groups will be keeping a watchful eye after the FAFSA chaos last year that has some colleges still processing the forms. 

'I will say there definitely is not 100 percent trust from the financial aid community, because it really was — the 2024-2025 year — was really traumatic, and there has definitely been a breakdown in trust. So [the Department of Education] does have some work to do, I would say, in restoring that trust, and I think there they know that,' said Karen McCarthy, vice president of public policy and federal relations for the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators."

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Publication Date: 8/12/2024