FAFSA Security Concern - Anybody have this happen?

Paying for College
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Last night I received an email that started out by saying, “You started and saved a correction to your 2018-19 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form at fafsa.gov but have not submitted the correction for processing.” It goes on to say we should go in and save the change and submit it. However, neither my daughter nor I did go in to make a change.

The FAFSA was submitted in mid-October and neither of us have revisited it.

I called the FAFSA office this morning and basically they said one of us must have gone in and made a change, but we didn’t. Has anyone had this happen? Could one of her schools gone in to make a change without saving it?

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That might be it. I don’t know how they tell who made the change.

Another poster recently mentioned a similar scenario but I think in her case it was the 2017/18 FAFSA for the current school year.

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Did either of you look at it after it was submitted? If so, the system may have assumed you were updating it, and that you did not submit your updates.

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I don’t think so, but definitely not in the past several weeks.

5

You should change the password now.

6

Done. Thank you @coolweather, I should have thought of that.

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You may receive additional reminders, based on the initial reminder.

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Ah yes, you are probably right. Thanks for the heads up on that.

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I that too, so I logged on and it was them FAFSA people actually processing it that generated the email. it showed the date I submitted, then the revision date. When I clicked to “see revisions” it said processed by FAFSA.