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Episode: The new FAFSA is meant to make applying for college aid easier, but not everyone can access it yet
Description: A new online application designed to make applying for federal student aid easier went live last month, but not everyone has been able to access it.
The FAFSA, or Free Application for Federal Student Aid, typically opens at the beginning of October, but it was delayed three months due to the launch of the new application. Then, a few days before the launch date, the Department of Education announced that a soft launch would continue until all of the bugs in the new application were fixed.
As of 6:30 p.m. January 4, the department had received over half a million successful...