FAFSA help - does my mom need to make a separate FAFSA ID too??

Paying for College
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So I know I need a parent FAFSA ID to sign the end of my FAFSA before I can report it, but does my mom need to fill out all our information on another account to do this? We made her an account and her social security number got verified, but there seems to be no distinction between her account and a student account. Do we have to go through and fill out everything a second time? Or will the fact that she made an account be good enough? This whole thing is super confusing and I can’t find the answer anywhere.

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She needs her own ID and it has to be a different email than yours. You do one application. It has a section for the student to fill in financial info, and a section for parent info. At the end, after you’ve filled it all in, there will be a place for you to sign, and then below that a place for your parent to sign. The parent will have to enter her ID info (yours was entered to open the app, so your signature is just hitting the button).

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But should I be concerned that my parents account reads like a student account and has spaces for her to fill in information like she’s a student?

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@Smythe

You should be completing ONE FAFSA…and it’s yours. Your oarent fills in the parent income and assets in the parent section…and you fill in the student incime and assets in the student section. Then you sign with your username and ID, and your parent signs with their username and ID.

It sounds like you had your mom start her own FAFSA. If so…just don’t use that. The FAFSA should be yours…but should include your parent information. You don’t use two separate FAFSA forms.

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Some parents may also be students, @Smythe.

All your parent will do is use the FSA id to “sign” the FAFSA.

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https://fsaid.ed.gov/npas/index.htm

Your mom will make a FSA ID here. She will provide her name, address, soc sec number, birthdate, an email address different from yours. She will have her own secret questions.

After the ID is created she will verify it with a code that gets sent to her email address.

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There used to be a PIN number for student and parent to sign FAFSA. That was changed this year. Now student and one parent has to get a FSA ID (username and password) to sign the FAFSA.