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Out-of-state tuition is even worse, with the 2021-2022 school year coming in at over $38,000 ... For most, this means filling out the FAFSA every October. The United States’ federal aid system as we ...

For example, if the FAFSA was filed on October 1, 2022, for the 2023-24 school year, the custodial parent is the one with whom the student lived with from that date back to October 1, 2021.

Submitting the Free Application for Federal Student Aid isn't the final step families take to receive federal financial aid. In addition to providing information requested by their chosen school ...

The FAFSA outage comes one day after the Department of Education announced it fired more than 1,300 people — or nearly half of its workforce. There was a massive outage on the website students ...

The graduating class of 2021 completed 4.8% fewer FAFSA than the class of 2020 ... The maximum federal Pell Grant award for low-income students for the 2022-23 academic year is $8,370. Among students ...