Senate GOP Launches Website for Reporting FAFSA Issues
Hugh T. Ferguson
February 2, 2024
A group of Senate Republicans led by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), ranking member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, have launched a website for students, guidance counselors, college admissions faculty, financial aid administrators and others, to report issues they are experiencing with the 2024-25 FAFSA application.
Cassidy also announced, in a press conference on Thursday, that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has begun an investigation – which Cassidy and other Republicans requested – into the Department of Education’s (ED) handling of the FAFSA launch.
“The biggest concern is for those high school students who are just now attending college for the first time who have not been through this before,” Cassidy said. “Many students will likely forgo college because they do not know if they can afford it.”
The new resource comes in the wake of ED’s continued delays in the FAFSA rollout, with the department announcing on Tuesday that institutions and states will begin receiving Institutional Student Information Records (ISIRs) in the “first half of March.”
