2024-2025 Free Application
for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
09/15/2023
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
08/31/2025
34,328,439
33,962,310
22,417,460
22,844,712
0
0
Section 483, of the Higher Education
Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), mandates that the Secretary of
Education “…shall produce, distribute, and process free of charge
common financial reporting forms as described in this subsection to
be used for application and reapplication to determine the need and
eligibility of a student for financial assistance...”. The
determination of need and eligibility are for the following Title
IV, HEA, federal student financial assistance programs: the Federal
Pell Grant Program; the Campus-Based programs (Federal Supplemental
Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) and Federal Work-Study
(FWS)); the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan)
Program; the Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher
Education (TEACH) Grant; the Children of Fallen Heroes Scholarship
and the Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grant. Federal Student Aid
(FSA), an office of the U.S. Department of Education (hereafter
“the Department”), subsequently developed an application process to
collect and process the data necessary to determine a student’s
eligibility to receive Title IV, HEA program assistance. The
application process involves an applicant’s submission of the Free
Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®). This is a request for
revisions of a current information collection, and important
changes to the FAFSA form are described separately in the 2024-2025
Summary of Enhancements document.
US Code:
20
USC 1090 Name of Law: Higher Education Act of 1965, as
amended
US Code: 20 USC 1090 Name of Law: Higher
Education Act of 1965, as amended
The Department adjusted the
data set used to calculate the burden projections. For 2024-2025
estimates, we utilized the 2021-2022 application cycle results,
which offered a complete data set, to forecast individual burden.
The Department believes this more accurately reflects and depicts
our respondent universe. The Department is projecting a burden
decrease of 427,252 hours. The burden decrease is attributed to the
implementation of statutory changes in the FAFSA Simplification Act
and Future Act provisions which allows the department to provide an
enhanced and optimized FAFSA experience. With the IRS direct data
exchange, the department is able to directly transfer the FAFSA
contributor’s federal tax information, with their express
permission, into the application and eliminated the need for the
user to link, authenticate and transfer their tax information from
the IRS web site using the IRS Data Retrieval tool process.
$38,706,260
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Beth Grebeldinger 202
708-8242
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
2024-2025 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
1845-0001 2024-2025 60 day comment period summary 2023.docx
2024-2025 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)