Federal Student Aid has released volumes of the 2025-26 FAFSA Specifications Guide. The volumes contained in this guide contain FAFSA Processing System (FPS) technical information for the 2025-26 award year and are only available as PDF documents at this time.
Update on September 26, 2024: The Department has updated Volume 4B implements several revisions to values in the Country Codes tables. Review the Change History Table near the beginning of the volume for details.
The following volumes remain unchanged:
- Introduction
- Volume 4A – Record Layouts
- Volume 5 – Edits and Rejects
- Volume 9 – Testing and Web Demo System
SOURCE: 2025–26 FAFSA Specifications Guide (September 2024 Update #2)