Affordability

Joint letter from TICAS, CLASP, and HLA encouraging policymakers to consider two specific improvements to the FAFSA Simplification Act of 2019 that would further strengthen the bill for the benefit of students and their families.

President Trump today signed into law the FUTURE Act, an important piece of bipartisan legislation that will make it easier for students and families to apply for federal financial aid.

President Trump today signed into law the FUTURE Act, an important piece of bipartisan legislation that will make significant improvements to the federal financial aid system.

Statement of Jessica Thompson on Congresses' 2020 spending package to increase the max Pell Grant by $150 and cut the Pell Reserve fund by $500M.

The Education Department last week shared its plans to conduct a new and unprecedented experiment to allow selected colleges to, essentially, use federal loan dollars to fund private education loans. TICAS, New America, and The Century Foundation share what we know — and, more critically, what we don’t — about this new development.

29 organizations urge the House Ways & Means Committee to take up and pass the Stop EITC and CTC Seizures Act, which would prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury from seizing federal Child Tax Credit (CTC) or Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) refunds to pay back student loan debt owed to the U.S. Department of Education.