Notice2025-21303
Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®) Information To Be Verified for the 2026-2027 Award Year
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Published
November 26, 2025
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Education Department
Abstract
For each award year, the Secretary publishes in the Federal Register a notice announcing the FAFSA information that an institution and an applicant may be required to verify, as well as the acceptable documentation for verifying FAFSA information. This is the notice for the 2026-2027 award year; Assistance Listing Numbers 84.007, 84.033, 84.063, and 84.268.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 226 (Wednesday, November 26, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54316-54323]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-21303]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA[supreg])
Information To Be Verified for the 2026-2027 Award Year
AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: For each award year, the Secretary publishes in the Federal
Register a notice announcing the FAFSA information that an institution
and an applicant may be required to verify, as well as the acceptable
documentation for verifying FAFSA information. This is the notice for
the 2026-2027 award year; Assistance Listing Numbers 84.007, 84.033,
84.063, and 84.268.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Vanessa Gomez. Telephone: (202) 453-
6708. Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e3b5828d86909082cda48c8e8699a38687cd848c95"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6335020d061010024d240c0e06192306074d040c15">[email protected]</span></a>.
If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability and
wish to access telecommunications relay services, please dial 7-1-1.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: If the Secretary selects an applicant for
verification, the applicant's Institutional Student Information Record
(ISIR) includes flags that indicate (1) that the applicant has been
selected by the Secretary for verification and (2) the verification
tracking group in which the applicant has been placed. The verification
tracking group indicates which FAFSA information needs to be verified
for the applicant and, if appropriate, for the applicant's parent(s) or
spouse. The FAFSA Submission Summary indicates that the applicant's
FAFSA information has been selected for verification and directs the
applicant to contact the institution for further instructions for
completing the verification process.
In accordance with the Fostering Undergraduate Talent by Unlocking
Resources for Education (FUTURE) Act, much of the applicant's tax
return information, including information from their spouse and/or
parents, will come directly from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and
will not be viewable by the student and other contributors. IRS data
that is transferred and used in the Pell Grant eligibility
determination and/or Student Aid Index (SAI) calculation cannot be
edited and therefore is not subject to any verification procedures.
When data is unable to be obtained directly from the IRS, the applicant
will have to manually enter the necessary information into the FAFSA
form, and that manual entry may be subject to verification.
The following chart lists, for the 2026-2027 award year, the FAFSA
information that an institution and an applicant and, if appropriate,
the applicant's parent(s) or spouse may be required to verify under 34
CFR 668.56. The chart also lists the acceptable documentation that
must, under section 668.57, be provided to an institution for that
information to be verified.
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The individual FAFSA items that an applicant must verify are based
upon the Verification Tracking Group to which the applicant is assigned
as outlined in the following chart.
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Other Sources for Detailed Information
We provide a more detailed discussion on the verification process
in the following resources that will be available on the Knowledge
Center web page at <a href="https://fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-center:">https://fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-center:</a>
<bullet> 2026-2027 Application and Verification Guide.
<bullet> 2026-2027 FAFSA Specifications Guide: Volume 6--ISIR
Guide, Volume 7--Comment Codes.
<bullet> 2026-2027 COD Technical Reference.
<bullet> Program Integrity Information--Questions and Answers on
Verification at <a href="https://www.ed.gov/laws-and-policy/higher-education-laws-and-policy/program-integrity-questions-and-answers-verification">https://www.ed.gov/laws-and-policy/higher-education-laws-and-policy/program-integrity-questions-and-answers-verification</a>.
Accessible Format: On request to the program contact person listed
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, individuals with disabilities
can obtain this document in an accessible format. The Department will
provide the requestor with an accessible format that may include Rich
Text Format (RTF) or text format (txt), a thumb drive, an MP3 file,
braille, large print, audiotape, or compact disc or other accessible
format.
Electronic Access to This Document: The official version of this
document is the document published in the Federal Register. You may
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Federal Regulations at <a href="http://www.govinfo.gov">www.govinfo.gov</a>. At this site you can view this
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by the Department.
Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1070a, 1070b-1070b-4, 1087a-1087j, and
1087-51 through 1087-58.
David Barker,
Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education.
[FR Doc. 2025-21303 Filed 11-25-25; 8:45 am]
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