Spellings Sees Progress in Shrinking Financial-Aid Applicatio...
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Education Secretary Margaret Spellings announced this evening, as part of an
address at Harvard University, that she had been able to whittle the main
federal financial-aid application, known as the Fafsa, from 120 questions in six
pages down to just 27 questions.
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“It’s red tape like this that keeps 40 percent of college students from even applying for federal aid,” the secretary said, according to a copy of her prepared remarks. “That’s nearly eight million students. And we believe most would have been eligible for assistance.”
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Such changes also have been urged by Congress, which included provisions in the
Higher Education Opportunity Act, enacted in August, that urged the secretary to
reduce the number of questions on the Fafsa, and to work with the Internal
Revenue Service to further simplify the process by automatically sharing data
provided by students and their families on tax forms.
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