FAFSA/CSS MARITAL STATUS CONFUSION PLEASE HELP IMMEDIATELY!!!

No it doesn’t have to match their tax filing status. Fafsa and taxes are two different things. But if verified it does make verification harder when fafsa marital and tax filing status don’t match.

OP, kelsmom is a finaid officer at a college. Take her post #1 and anything else she posts as gospel, even ahead of anything you were told when you called the fafsa number.