Staffing cuts are already causing issues, but you should submit the FAFSA if you need help paying for college. Here's how to do it.

The Studentaid.gov website was down for hours on Wednesday after the Education Department laid off half its workforce.   Downdetector saw hundreds of users report the outage of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA),

A list of laid-off staff obtained and verified by AP shows more than 300 people cut from Federal Student Aid — two dozen of them from Federal Student Aid’s technology division. That included the entir