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 Feb. 21, 2025: FSA updated Volume 3 – Electronic Data Exchange and FAFSA Processing, Volume 5 – Edits and Rejects, and Volume 7 – Comment Codes. The changes made are specified in the Change History Table near the beginning of each volume. The remaining volumes are unchanged.
The following volumes remain unchanged:
- Introduction
- Volume 1 – Summary of Changes
- Volume 2 – FPS Schedule and Getting Help
- Volume 4A – Record Layouts
- Volume 4B – Processing Codes
- Volume 6 – ISIR Guide
- Volume 8 – Agency Matches
- Volume 9 – Testing and Web Demo System
View the specification guide here.
SOURCE: 2025–26 FAFSA Specifications Guide (February 2025 Update #2)