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On March 12, 2024, we published an Electronic Announcementthat provides an update on the U.S. Department of Education’s (Department) commitment to resolving the known issues within the 2024–25 FAFSA online form impacting students who have a contributor without a Social Security number (SSN) in the first half of March.
Status: Open Description: If a student or parent signs the student’s or parent’s respective section of a 2024-25 FAFSA form that includes other contributors and returns to the form before the other contributors have signed and submitted the form and selects “Save” from the FAFSA menu without making any changes, the signature of that student or parent is removed from the application.
Updates: On March 14, 2024, we updated the 2024-25 FAFSA Updates page. Each time we update the page, we will update this announcement and re-push it to our subscription email. In addition, you can bookmark the page and check it periodically. Issue Alerts: On Feb. 23, 2024, we updated the 2024-25 FAFSA Issue Alerts page.
An emergency action notification test on an Android smartphone; October 3, 2018. A National Emergency Message ( SAME code: EAN), formerly known until 2022 as an Emergency Action Notification, is the national activation of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) used to alert the residents of the United States of a national or global emergency such as ...
When the 2024–25 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form first became available, the U.S. Department of Education discovered an issue preventing contributors without a Social Security number (SSN) from starting or accessing the form. The Department previously committed to fixing the issue in the first half of March.
The 2024–25 FAFSA form expands eligibility for federal student aid, including Pell Grants, and provides a streamlined user experience. An estimated 7.3 million new students from low-income backgrounds will be eligible to receive Federal Pell Grants due to updates to student aid calculations. Plus, applicants will be able to skip as many as 26 ...
Emergency notification system. An emergency notification system is a method of facilitating the one-way dissemination or broadcast of messages to one or many groups of people, alerting them to a pending or existing emergency. [1] The Emergency Notification System (ENS) was created by Dialogic Communication Corporation (DCC) in the early 1980s.
The U.S. Department of Education today announced updates on its progress on the 2024–25 Better FAFSA® implementation. “We are putting all hands on deck and using every lever we have to make sure we can achieve the transformational potential of the Better FAFSA to make higher education possible for many more of our nation’s students,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona ...