<p>Doing our D's FAFSA with her , and she has her regular summer job income ( about ($1100 ) and then , AT SCHOOL , her Federal work-study job income .In doing the FAFSA worksheet on the student side ( Section C , Worksheet C ) , do we put the year-to-date amount from her last work-study check ( about $1000 ) in 2005 ?</p>
<p>HOWEVER , when she does her taxes , is FWS amount included as "wages " on her tax form 1040EZ ( line 1) ?</p>
<p>Doesn't that mean that her work-study amount , which is counted in her wages on the Tax form , and the same work-study earnings entered in the FAFSA worksheet C will be COUNTED TWICE ??</p>
<p>OR does she NOT include FWS earning as "wages " on line 1 in her 1040EZ ???</p>
<p>She also got a small assistantship ( no paperwork arrived yet ) . Is that going to also be counted as "wages " ( she typed papers for a prof.).</p>
<p>Work Study income is included as waged for tax purposes. BUT it doesn't count as income when the FAFSA computes the EFC. It gets subtracted out on one of the worksheets, where you calculate the gross income from work, and then subtract any need-based work study earnings, to get the total income from work.</p>
<p>The assistantship $$ would be included as wages for tax purposes-- and unless it's part of her need-based Work Study package, it will also be included as wages in the FAFSA, as part of the gross and total income from work.</p>
<p>Worksheet C is deductions from your income for FAFSA purposes. Anything placed on worksheet C does not get double counted; it get's removed from the calculation.</p>
<p>thanks so much for helping me out on the work-study/FAFSA/taxes quandary.</p>
<p>Another question : We are filing estimate renewal FAFSA today . For question concerning parents' savings/cash/checking , we will put in the exact amount that is in the account today.</p>
<p>However , when we correct the FAFSA ( after we finish our taxes later in the month ) , do we also change the amount in the cash/checking /savings account that reflects the amount on that given day ??</p>
<p>Use the amount in your accounts today. There will be no need to correct it later. You'd be changing account values on a daily basis if they expected you to update those.</p>
<p>One suggestion, put all your estimates (tax return) in numbers ending in 000, use real and true numbers for anything where you have them (assets, cash, etc) then we you correct, you only correct for the numbers where you guessed....and it is easy to tell because of the 000s.</p>