Staffing cuts are already causing issues, but you should submit the FAFSA if you need help paying for college. Here's how to do it.

The Studentaid.gov website was down for hours on Wednesday after the Education Department laid off half its workforce.   Downdetector saw hundreds of users report the outage of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA),

The FAFSA outage comes one day after the Department of Education announced it fired more than 1,300 people - or nearly half of its workforce.

An hours-long outage on StudentAid.gov has underscored the risks in rapidly gutting the Department of Education.

The layoffs call into question how agency will be able to handle major operations such as student loans, FAFSA, the Nation’s Report Card and civil rights complaints.