<p>If a person is 24 years old and lives at home with parents will he be an independent student for fafsa?</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>“Note that a student who qualifies as independent under section 480(d) of the Higher Education Act does not need to be self sufficient. For example, a student who is 24 years old or married still counts as independent even if he lives at home with his parents. This is true even if the student is receiving more than half his support from his parents. (The only exception is for a student who is independent only because of a child. Such a student must provide more than half the support of the child and continue to do so throughout the award year in order to be independent. If the student is not providing more than half his own support, the student cannot count as providing more than half the child’s support.)”</p>
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<p>Thank You good to know.</p>
<p>Are you an incoming freshman? At some colleges, if you are a dependent student when you enroll, you continue as a dependent student until you graduate (for institutional aid purposes).</p>
<p>Yes Thanks Thumper</p>