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<p>Thank you for further clarification.</p>
<p>Wasn’t there a thread about a kid wanting to be homeless in order to get more financial aid?</p>
<p>I still can’t get over the fact that his parent’s boss called to let him know his parents have abandoned him. If you were someone’s boss, would you do that or would you even know?</p>
<p>[People</a> Search | Background Check | Reverse Cell Phone Lookup - Intelius.com](<a href=“http://www.intelius.com%5DPeople”>http://www.intelius.com). Give that a shot. You may find your parents other addresses, if what you are saying is true. It’s not that difficult to find people. I have done that many times with great success, and never had to spend any money.</p>
<p>I am worried about your spelling, not your “moneys”</p>
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I am talking about applying for financial aid for NEXT year (2011-2012). If indeed his parents have broken off contact with him and he cannot locate them – and can document that fact – then it seems to me that there would be a pretty clear case of abandonment and he would be entitled to be considered independent when applying for aid for the following year.</p>
<p>Oh, man, this is a pretty good ■■■■■! 
He managed to get three pages of posts!</p>
<p>Well, cal’s mom post got me thinking…
If I can get a dependency override for having no contact with parents (Which could get me a fair amount of money), is it even worth trying to find parents that I never really liked?
Considering they stopped communicating with me, I’d bet they don’t care about me or know me enough that I’d be okay.</p>
<p>I mean suppose I eventually manage to find them and contact them, that’d leave me without the override and would cover my 3000-2000 dollar gap that they’d promise to pay. (Though this gap would probably be met by summer wages…)</p>
<p>…Hell, now that I have considered wages in the summer, I’m probably set for college financially. Looks like nothing bad really happened at all, besides no contact with my parents eh?</p>
<p>Let’s see
Rent+Utilities are about 600 a month or 7200 a year
Food is about 40 a week or 2000 a year
Tuition + Fees, after bright futures is 2500 a year</p>
<p>5500, after taxes wages during school year.
5500, after taxes wages during summer.</p>
<p>There is a tiny gap but looks like I’m set if I manage to get a bit more hours for work. =D</p>
<p>Serious ■■■■■</p>
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Hungry ■■■■■ if he/she thinks they are eating on $40/week.</p>
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<p>Oh wait… nevermind</p>
<p>^^ LOL</p>
<p>I too think this is a ■■■■■ but I actually know a kid to whom something similar (sort of) happened. In that case, the parents dropped the kid off at a pricey private freshman year and, when the kid called home, the number had been changed. The kid became increasingly nervous… until sometime in late October or early November when the parents called. They had moved (I think out-of-state) and hadn’t even told the kid!!! I was floored but several people in that family had autistic-type traits and I really think they didn’t even think it would be a problem.</p>
<p>I also think this is a ■■■■■. However I do know of a young person who had a somewhat (albeit much different in scope!) experience a few years ago. This young woman was a student at Stanford and her family lived on the other side of the country. A few weeks after her parents dropped her off at college (she was an only child) she called home and found the number had been disconnected. She had been talking to her parents via cell phones and each time she’d talk to one they’d say the other parent was plausibly unavailable (“dad’s in the bathroom I’ll have him call you back” or “mom ran out to the store, I will ask her to call you.”). Her mother explained the home phone situation was merely that they had been having phone problems with their home line and were temporarily just using their cells. It wasn’t until her mom picked her up at the airport on Thanksgiving that her mother told her (driving away from the airport) that the parents had gotten divorced the week after she started at Stanford (apparently this was legally in the works for months, unbeknown to the daughter), had moved out of their house and sold it (this was during the height of the real estate boom), and each parent was livingly separately in different apartments. Apparently they didn’t want to “ruin” their daughter’s first semester at college by telling her this information. In the end, based upon the daughter’s reaction to this experience (and how I came to know this young person and her story), I think this was the absolute worst approach they could’ve taken…</p>
<p>Re post #46 – you would have to document that you really could not find your parents for purposes of the dependency override. So you would at least need to make a basic effort to make contact. Otherwise the financial aid people will be as skeptical of the story as we are.</p>
<p>Unless OP’s parents have totally changed their identities, anyone could easily run a credit check on them with their social security numbers and you could get their new address. I think any FA office worth its money would do that first before they grant the dependency override. School’s FA office should have OP’s parents’ social security numbers.</p>
<p>OP could report his parents missing to the police, right? It should work both ways.</p>
<p>Actually, I’m not sure whether it would be legal for the financial aid office to run a credit check on the parents at this point. Certainly they could take other actions to try to find them… but there are some pretty tight restrictions on circumstances under which a credit check can be run. </p>
<p>Also, I’m not sure whether it matters whether they can be located by 3rd parties – the issue for a dependency override wouldn’t be whether the parents are “lost” but whether the facts establish abandonment. See: [FinAid</a> | Professional Judgment | Dependency Overrides](<a href=“Your Guide for College Financial Aid - Finaid”>Dependency Overrides - Finaid)</p>
<p>The article above says that there would be abandonment if there was no contact for at least a year – which certainly isn’t the case right now – but it would be the case effective at the start of school next year, if the parents did not contact OP and he could not find them. </p>
<p>Also, in practice, if the OP does not find the parents by next spring, he is going to have to complete a FAFSA without their tax or income information – so one way or another the financial aid department would have to confront the issue that the parents have taken off. </p>
<p>Assuming that the OP is presenting a real situation, there must be a lot more going on than he is disclosed - obviously there are serious problems with the home situation, or else the kid wouldn’t have been so anxious to clear out – and parents wouldn’t have just disappeared. So there may be other fact that could be considered. </p>
<p>Of course the parents might just show up – maybe they actually do intend to provide continued financial support to the kid, but just don’t want to deal with him right now, for whatever reason.</p>
<p>Or, it could all be some type of ploy, to get financial aid. The whole thing just seems so far fetched. </p>
<p>If this is true than the parents sound like they are in some type of trouble and maybe they can’t contact the son. OP where are your parents from?</p>
<p>Reread the OP. Why would the dad’s boss call this kid to tell him this stuff? If anything, wouldn’t he call to ask if he’d heard from his parents? And how would he know that the house was sold and new owners moved in. Why would a boss know that level of detail about an employee’s personal life, even if it was a small company? Just doesn’t add up.</p>
<p>OP also says he has no relatives he can contact and knows none of their friends or neighbors, Didn’t he live in the same house with them? And he knows none of their neighbors? </p>
<p>I don’t believe this one for a second.</p>
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<p>Again, thank you for some more clarifying information.</p>
<p>The faster he runs, the behinder he gets. More info seems to = more bologna (or baloney for the op-- who spells “monies” as “moneys”.)</p>
<p>Reminds me very much of the purposefully “homeless” girl looking for financial aid info.</p>