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 March 4, 2025: FSA updated Volume 7 – Comment Codes to add back the Nov. 2024 and Dec. 2024 changes to the Change History Table. These were inadvertently removed when we published the Feb. 2025 volume.
The following volumes remain unchanged:
- Introduction
- Volume 1 – Summary of Changes
- Volume 2 – FPS Schedule and Getting Help
- Volume 3 – Electronic Data Exchange and FAFSA Processing
- Volume 4A – Record Layouts
- Volume 4B – Processing Codes
- Volume 5 – Edits and Rejects
- 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 (March 2025 Update)