Is Federal Student Aid down?

Status: ✅ OK

There is currently no sign of a Federal Student Aid outage.

Administered by the U.S. Department of Education, Federal Student Aid offers grants, loans, and work-study funds to help students finance postsecondary education at accredited institutions.

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📈 User Reports and Outages in the Last 24 Hours

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🌐 Federal Student Aid Outage Map

The map is created using the locations of users who have submitted reports on the site

Federal Student Aid outage map · 2026-02-19

We haven't observed any significant outages affecting Federal Student Aid in the past 24 hours.

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🔎 Social Media Monitoring

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i was gonna do fafsa but their website is lowkirkenuinely down for maintenance so instead i played thru no man’s wharf and holy fucky **** that zone sucks cheeks.

Why would FAFSA be down the day i’m actually tryna do it