Department of Education

By Marlene Seeklander Accurately completing the FISAP is important and those responsible for it can complete an online, self-paced training course. The Department announced that the 2025-26 FISAP course is now available on the FSA Training Center to assist with completing the FISAP for 2023-24 and Application to Participate for 2025-26. The FISAP, available on the […]

By Marlene Seeklander Many schools may now need to dedicate staff to performing individual corrections to FAFSA information. In an already frustrating award cycle, the Department of Education announced that it will not offer schools the ability to do batch corrections for 2024-25 and has deferred this functionality until 2025-26. The news was released via a

By Marlene Seeklander The Department of Education is among the federal offices closed for the Labor Day federal holiday on Monday, September 2. The August 19 announcement states that the Federal Student Aid (FSA) processors and contact centers will be closed on September 2. All FSA websites will be operational on the holiday. The following additional

By Marlene Seeklander A flexibility that allowed students and their family members without a Social Security number to complete the 2024-25 FAFSA will be extended to the 2025-26 FAFSA. In a July 30 Electronic Announcement, the Department of Education (ED) said it will extend this flexibility to continue temporarily enabling FAFSA applicants and other contributors without

By Marlene Seeklander With the 2024-25 FAFSA work still underway, an important guide for 2025-26 is now available for financial aid professionals. In an August 13 Electronic Announcement, the Department of Education said the 2025–26 Student Aid Index (SAI) and Pell Grant Eligibility Guide includes information on methodology for determining eligibility for federal student aid, and

By Marlene Seeklander Participants can now start reviewing the FSA Training Conference session information and descriptions before registration opens in October. The Department of Education announced that program information is available for the 2024 virtual Federal Student Aid Training Conference, which will be held December 3-6. Before registration opens in October, financial aid professionals can review

By Marlene Seeklander Financial aid professionals have another deadline to add to an already busy fall calendar and issues that would have impeded meeting the deadline have been resolved. The Department of Education last week updated an August 5 Electronic Announcement about sending draft Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment (FVT/GE) Completers List. The list identifies