"Education Department's FAFSA Errors Delay Financial Aid for Thousands of Students"

The U.S. Department of Education acknowledged sending hundreds of thousands of inaccurate student financial aid assessments to colleges due to an error it blamed on an outside vendor, further delaying financial aid offers to college and high school students. This is the latest misstep in the Biden administration’s rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), which has been plagued with glitches and blunders. The agency's miscalculation of the amount of money that roughly 200,000 students could afford to pay for college potentially gave more financial aid to students with more money. The erroneous calculations are now being reprocessed, but the situation has left many colleges waiting and scrambling to pack months’ worth of work into a matter of weeks.