"Students said changes to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid will ease the process with a simplified layout," The GW Hatchet reports.

..."Jill Desjean, a senior policy analyst for the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, said this year’s FAFSA is delayed because the Department of Education is working to implement the changes made to FAFSA from a spending bill passed in December 2020, which aimed to make the application simpler.

Co-sponsors of the FAFSA reform bill, Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Doug Jones (D-AL), said the 108 questions on last year’s form were a barrier to low-income students because the length of the form burdens applicants.

'The department had to start that from scratch, the whole consent process and really just develop a whole new way of completing the FAFSA,' Desjean said."

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Publication Date: 10/9/2023