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Washington (AP)-One hour outage for the student. Rapid education department intestineAs President Donald Trump The agency has to destroy,
Starting from noon on Wednesday, dozens of visitors for the student. DoutaterThe National Association of Student Financial Administrators, people who are a group of people who handle the financial assistance awards of colleges, said that it has received reports from users who experience technical issues and are having trouble completing it. FafsaA form that is necessary for financial assistance in colleges across the country.
The group said on X, “NASFAA is demanding clarity as to why the form is down and when the issues will be resolved, although the deduction of yesterday employees can cause troubleshooting complex,” the group said on X.
Developers and IT support staff who worked on FAFSA form were a tough hit with the purchase of employees on Tuesday and the ending of the employees under probation. Among all, the Education Department has reduced its employees by half, since Trump took over.
More than 300 people have been cut off with federal student assistance in a list of employees obtained and verified by AP-two dozen of them from the Technology Division of Federal Students Assistance. This included the entire team responsible for the system supporting the FAFSA form, a person with the knowledge of the outage told the Associated Press, speaking anonymously for fear of vengeance. While the employees kept till March 21 are still technically employed, they had limited access to their emails, phones and computers, making outage difficult. At one point on Wednesday, around 70 people joined a team call to try to poinse the cause of the outage.
The call continued for hours. By Wednesday evening, the website claimed a banner that “planned maintenance” was going on, and login access was cut.
The Education Department did not immediately respond to the request of comment on the outage.
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