"The Education Department announced on Wednesday that availability of the federal student aid application form would be delayed for a second year in a row, after months of last-ditch troubleshooting and contingency planning failed to fully fix significant problems with last year’s revised application," The New York Times reports.

..."As recently as last month, the department was still running into problems with 2024-25 applications.

On July 30, the department notified schools that they could not send back forms that needed corrections — to reflect unexpected changes in a family’s income, for example — in batches, forcing them to return revised forms one by one.

'The fact that we are still, to this day, dealing with the aftershocks of this year’s FAFSA rollout shows just how imperative it is that the process is thoroughly tested from end to end and launched as a system, not in a piecemeal manner,' Beth Maglione, the interim president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, said in a statement on Wednesday."

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Publication Date: 8/7/2024