The new ‘simplified’ FAFSA application turned into a student nightmare

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If no one in your family has applied for college recently, you may not be familiar with the unending mental torture of filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, commonly known as the FAFSA and usually spoken alongside a curse word or two. Created by Congress in 1992, FAFSA is required for all federal financial aid applications including loans, grants and work-study. Roughly half of high school seniors fill it out every year.

And like that measure, it could rebound badly on President Joe Biden, who has used forgiveness of student debt to try to woo young voters he needs to win re-election. The Obamacare fiasco led to much soul-searching among Democrats, who realized that their dreams of using the government to help people could be undone by a few lines of bad code. The Obama administration hired an engineer from Google to redesign the site and created the U.S.

 

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