<p>We filled out FAFSA applications for my daughter when she was in undergraduate school and she has loans which we agreed to pay for her after graduation. She has 2 middle names, one of which was used in the last name field of the application along with her last name so it reads as 2 last names. (First Name) - (Middle Name Last Name). After a few years in the working world she recently created a whole new FAFSA application for graduate school using her First name and Last Name only. Her SSN and birthday read the same, my guess is it didn't get flagged because the system interprets the last name as different? My feeling is that we need to clear this up, any thoughts on the best way to do this? The name on the SS card could be interpreted either way, just lists four names, first, middle, middle, last with no hyphens.</p>
<p>I’m confused. If it didn’t get flagged, what’s the problem? Am I missing something? </p>
<p>My last name gets changed all the time because of how different systems interpret the apostrophe and it’s never been an issue with FAFSA.</p>
<p>It may not be a problem. My concern is that she has federal student loans that were created using FAFSA applications with the (middle name last name) combo and she is now creating an application for graduate federal loans that just use the last name. We are talking about a 3 year gap from undergraduate until now. Are you saying that if the application goes through cleanly the fed gov doesn’t care about the 2 different “profiles”/</p>
<p>There really shouldn’t be any problem about this. People change their names all the time. If she’s concerned about it she should give FAFSA and the institution that holds her undergrad loans a phone call.</p>
<p>I think her plan is to call the school she submitted the FAFSA to for graduate school and see if they have a problem or if the application goes through the system cleanly. Her undergrad loans are all Federal, I’m just leery of having to go backwards and try and correct past history if we can avoid it. Her SSN, birthday will match in both cases for undergrad and grad. Like I mentioned, they way it reads on her physical card is open to interpretation. Bottom line want to make sure none of this could be considered fraudulent by applying for federal aid using 2 different names with the same SSN and birthday.</p>
<p>If the FAFSA passed the SSN check & there are no messages indicating a SSN mismatch, she should be fine. The SSN and DOB matches are key. If in doubt, contact the school to make sure everything is good.</p>
<p>Thanks, she is coordinating with the school and has not received any red flag messages. Her applications status says that the information had been processed correctly and would be made available to the University. FYI, be very clear about legal birth certificate name and SSN name, our creativity with infants has caused them some grief as young adults.</p>
I know this thread is old, but what was the result of her FAFSA application for grad school? I’m in the same boat right now.
@mo1066 The person hasn’t been on CC for 3 years
@mo1066 please do not revive old threads.