<p>I have a student in the family whose mother, a custodial parent is recently passed away. I have a few questions about what to do with FAFSA application for 2013-2014 school year. It is already been submitted in timely fashion, but no longer reflects reality. I know that in this cases non-custodial parent started to be considered as custodial parent for FAFSA purposes, but here the additional layer in this particular case. Non-custodial parent (father of the student) divorced students mother many years ago in the foreign country from where student and her late mother emigrated number of years ago. Student is naturalized citizens who spent her K-12 years in USA. While CSS profile has been submitted, it did not result in demand of payments from long lost father residing abroad. The student will apply for dependency status override, but in the meantime what to do with FAFSA? I assume that there nothing to be done with CSS profile in this particular situation. There are no complicating factors in the case no insurance payout, no survivor benefits, not even much loss of income, as her mother was a disabled for couple of years and depended on the kindness of family and Medicaid.</p>
<p>I am sorry for your family’s loss. FAFSA for school year 2013-2014 reflects income/assets for the school year 2012. </p>
<p>Since your worse case scenario is not a reality and got an answer to your question, I am simply attaching a link</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1349256-plus-loans-orphan-college.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1349256-plus-loans-orphan-college.html</a></p>
<p>For next year, student may have to use the income/assets of dad even though dad does not live in the country and has foreign income. Based on the information, that you have written, student may not necessarily be guaranteed an override and will have to submit information of non-custodial parent (who is still legally the parent).</p>
<p>Since the student is already accepted at a school, from what I gather from your post, and the 2013-14 aid is in place since it is based on 2012 income and assets of the date of already transmitted FAFSA, s/he is already set with the award for the upcoming year. Since the school of choice has already granted an override of father’s income in granting of financial aid in terms of PROFILE, the question becomes whether they will also grant it for FAFSA too. If this is a deal breaker for going to the school at all, perhaps discussion of this should be scheduled with the financial aid director, as to exactly what paperwork they will need for this student to also get the waiver for FAFSA that s/he is getting for the PROFILE in terms of the father’s financials or even his existance. The NCP parental waiver is what is needed. The discussion should be with the Director of Financial Aid and not the assistants since this is a crucial matter here.</p>
<p>Was a non-custodial profile required?</p>
<p>Did the student file the non-custodial profile or was it waived.</p>
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<p>You do not know for does not know this for certain because the financial information is not shared between the custodial and non-custodial parent. The school simply gives an EFC, they don’t care who pays it.</p>
<p>I agree, Sybbie, that not enough info is here. What I am saying is that IF the school in this situation has accepted and given the student a good package based on the mother’s information only, and this is also a CSS PROFILE school, either the father’s info was unneeded at the time when the mother was alive, the info was submitted and not considered relevant because it was too little, or some waiver was given since the father is long lost. The “long lost” made me think that the info was not forthcoming and some waiver was given. Whatever the situation was for this year, it needs to be clarified for the following year. </p>
<p>if this were a FAFSA only school, there would be a huge problem in that the parent might not even have been brought up, and whether he is Donald TRump would not matter. But with PROFILE, the is often some requirement of the NCP’s financials, and it is not clear whether this school is one that does not require them in the same way the FAFSA does not, or whether they gave the student a pass on them due to the situation. IF the school simply ignore NCP income, now that the NCP is on the radar screen as the Custodial Parent, there could be a significant problem, in that a waiver has to be sought, and if not give, the father’s info has to be submitted, or it can be a a stumbling block in the aid process.</p>