Form for student loans will become shorter

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<p>Welcomed news for students and parents filling out FAFSA forms.</p>

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The Department of Education plans to unveil a shorter FAFSA on Wednesday, cutting out more than a quarter of the questions and slashing the online version from 30 screens down to just 10.</p>

<p>And in a partnership with the Internal Revenue Service, many families will be able to automatically download their tax data into online FAFSA forms starting in January.</p>

<p>Education Secretary Arne Duncan is expected to announce those changes for the 2010-2011 school year at the daily White House briefing Wednesday, along with a proposal for Congress to cut even more bulk from the FAFSA .</p>

<p>The changes to the FAFSA are often commonsense, dropping obscure specifics that affect few students’ status, such as “special combat pay.”</p>

<p>Likewise, the agency is cutting through queries dripping in bureaucrat-ese. For example, the question, “At any time… did your high school or school district homeless liaison determine that you were an unaccompanied youth who was homeless?” will instead be, “Are you homeless?”

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