This week, the U.S. Department of Education reported another problem with federal financial aid forms that impacts about one million applicants. According to Department of Education administrators, some colleges received the wrong information about some families' finances due to inaccurate tax data from the IRS. Over the last few months the federal application for student aid or FAFSA has faced a number of issues while the government works to simplify the form.
“Families had issues with actually submitting the FAFSA. Parents or spouses who didn't have social security numbers, which impacts a large majority of families throughout the nation — they weren't able actually to submit the FAFSA. That (issue) has been resolved,” said Jennifer Helgason, Metropolitan State University of Denver director of complianc
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