"The Department of Education is urging student loan borrowers to complete their FAFSA applications following an error-filled rollout of the new application," UPI reports.

... "Organizations like The Education Trust, Higher Learning Advocates, National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators and National College Attainment Network have stepped in to provide support to students and administrators who are navigating the FAFSA issues."

... "NASFAA is an organization that represents financial aid administrators on college campuses. Senior Policy Analyst Jill DesJean said in an interview with UPI that administrators have had to be flexible throughout the last five months."

"The organization has been advising colleges to extend their application deadlines, which DesJean says has largely received a positive response."

"'FAFSA opened really late. Then once it opened it was really buggy,' DesJean said. 'Many students couldn't complete it. Then when that was resolved students couldn't get the data, and when they did it was wrong. Every time we thought it would be OK to make offers to students, some other piece of bad news would come through.'"

"DesJean said there has been a marked improvement over the last month but she is still concerned about the students that have been turned off by the negative experience."

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Publication Date: 5/31/2024