Financial aid is any form of funding that helps a student pay for college, such as a Pell Grant, loan or merit-based ...

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) application will be delayed this year, which may worry some college applicants, especially if they applied for early decision. FAFSA is how ...

After a long summer of technical glitches, most of America's prospective college students finally applied for federal financial aid — an annual process upended by a redesign-gone-bad. The number of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Middle-class families will face the brunt of changes to how the U.S. Department of Education calculates federal financial aid ...

"Because there were technical difficulties with the FAFSA for the last two cycles, it's hard to say whether overall this has been a good thing for students," Claire Alasio, associ ...

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as the FAFSA, officially opened Thursday for students seeking financial aid for college during the 2025-2026 school year. The form traditionally ...

There is no income limit to apply for the FAFSA, but income does impact the amount and type of aid you could get. Every ...

Cassy Rodriguez, 17, has always been a planner. Well before high school, she knew she would be the first in her family to graduate from college. She would then get a degree in social work to become a ...

FAFSA website is seen on the laptop as Adjovi Golo holds a laptop at DePaul University in Chicago. Delays and glitches in the new federal financial aid forms disrupted many students' plans for college ...

WASHINGTON — After a long summer of technical glitches, most of America's prospective college students finally applied for federal financial aid — an annual process upended by a redesign-gone-bad. The ...