Hundreds of thousands of financial aid applications need to be fixed after latest calculation error
by Collin Binkley
Mar 22, 2024
3 minutes
The U.S. Education Department said it has discovered a calculation error in hundreds of thousands of student financial aid applications sent to colleges this month and will need to reprocess them — a blunder that follows a series of others and threatens further delays to this year's college applications.
A vendor working for the federal government incorrectly calculated a financial aid formula for more than 200,000 students, the department said Friday. The information was sent to
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