Spellings Sees Progress in Shrinking Financial-Aid Application - Chronicle.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 02 Oct 08
  

  Philip Guth

  chronicle.com jlearning higher education financial aid

  • 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.

  • “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.”
  • 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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