This probably reaffirms what some of you folks have experienced, sounds like a disaster.

All applicants born in the year 2000 were initially and mysteriously blocked from completing the form, a problem that took 69 days to fix. According to the GAO, these year-2000 applicants weren’t warned of the problem, nor were they told when it was fixed. Many simply kept trying and failing to submit their application.

Some applicants received erroneous messages that their FAFSA application would expire after 40-45 days. This wasn’t fixed until 135 days after launch.

Some graduate students are still being told they qualify for federal Pell Grants – a program specifically created by Congress to help low-income undergraduate students.

The form sometimes disappears students’ and parents’ signatures after it’s been saved and re-opened – a glitch the GAO says the department has not resolved.