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 August 28, 2025:
FSA has updated Volume 4A, the Excel version of the ISIR record layout, and Volume 5 – Edits & Rejects. For more information, review the Change History Table in each volume and the “Changes” column in the Excel file.
View the specification guide here.
2025–26 FAFSA Specifications Guide
SOURCE: 2025–26 FAFSA Specifications Guide (August 2025 Update)