The Education Department says the new identification requirements, expected to affect 125,000 students, are necessary to ...

A Trump administration budget proposal for the U.S. Department of Education outlines plans to slash federal funding for ...

The Department of Education is requiring colleges and universities to implement stricter identity-verification measures for some first-time applicants for federal student aid, according to a Friday ...

Hundreds of colleges said they'd encountered disruptions in the financial aid process since the Education Department drastically reduced its staff.

According to a new survey, nearly a third of colleges have dealt with delays in getting FAFSA information, which is key to ...

Six in 10 colleges described noticeable changes or slowdowns in responsiveness from the Federal Student Aid office, the arm of the Education Department responsible for overseeing financial aid ...

But Trump’s approach of simply cutting the size of the Education Department without actually changing the way financial aid is structured or distributed — that is, the way colleges are ...

The U.S. Department of Education Friday announced a nationwide initiative to combat rampant identity theft and fraud within ...

the family’s main breadwinner called the financial aid office to adjust their income and potentially receive more aid for his son’s education. That triggered an audit of Carter Schmith’s ...