"Families and students are growing nervous about the fate of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) amid President Trump’s massive cuts to the Department of Education and his plans to do away with it entirely," The Hill reports.

..."Karen McCarthy, vice president for public policy and federal relations for the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, said there were no FAFSA employees terminated as part of the Trump layoffs but that some at the student aid offices who help the process for giving out student aid were let go.  

'While they may not have directly impacted the FAFSA team, there may be other offices, other departments within federal student aid that do some FAFSA support work, and those teams have been impacted,' McCarthy said.  

Reports have emerged that dozens of staffers in Federal Student Aid’s technology services had to be rehired after the mass layoffs.

'They seem to understand the importance of the FAFSA being open and available, and we saw during the layoffs that no employees that work directly on the FAFSA team were let go, but we do still have concerns in that we’re not quite sure that everybody within the administration has a full understanding, yet, since they’re so new, about all of the pieces to the FAFSA and the infrastructure that supports the FAFSA,' McCarthy said."

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Publication Date: 4/6/2025