Cracks are starting to appear in the federal financial aid apparatus after the Trump administration imposed sweeping staff ...

More than 600 positions have been eliminated from the U.S. Department of Education's Federal Student Aid office, internal ...

The Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid processes over 17.6 million Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) forms annually with a staff of roughly 1,400 employees ...

With layoffs and resignations, the office that oversees ... our students’ access to financial aid.” Two former employees said that before the staffing cuts, the oversight group had a backlog ...

The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency's new software plus FAFSA delays left thousands of students scrambling ...

Scammers have stolen more than $10 million in federal financial aid from California’s community colleges in the last 12 ...

School administrators struggled to use an unfamiliar system riddled with problems as thousands of students waited for money ...