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Federal student loan site down Wednesday, a day after layoffs gutted Education Department

StudentAid.gov experienced an hours-long outage on Wednesday, highlighting issues with the Department of Education's staffing cuts, as reported by multiple sources including the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators .
Hundreds of users reported issues with the FAFSA form, essential for financial aid, as stated by Downdetector.
More than 300 staff from Federal Student Aid were laid off, including the entire team managing FAFSA systems, according to a source who spoke to The Associated Press anonymously.
Allie Bidwell Arcese, a spokeswoman for NASFAA, expressed concerns about the lack of information from the Education Department regarding the outage.

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