In the meantime, just make sure you look for those four letters when searching the site.

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Members will be warning their home-state offices to look out for similar letters, she added.

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"The bottom line is, the process we have in place worked, " she said, adding that members of Congress will be warning their home-state offices to look out for similar letters.

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For now, parents should review financial-aid letters and look for contingency statements or discrepancies in awards (for example, if one school claims the student will receive a federal grant but another doesn't).

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Look for a small padlock on the bottom of your screen and the letters "https" at the beginning of the Web site's address in the browser window.

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