<p>Because of my mom's income level when I filled out the FAFSA it gave the option to skip filling out worksheet A, B & C on my application. Now I find out that one of the worksheets (Worksheet B, I think) has a place to claim child support on it. My question is, how do we know we have to include that information when the FAFSA allows you to skip those questions when your income is low? I just found out about what is contained in the worksheets because of the verification forms now I had to go back into my FAFSA and make corrections. Does anyone know anything about this? If we have to submit child support on the FAFSA why does it allow you to skip the worksheets? If it weren't for the verification, I would not have known this because it told me I could skip the worksheets based on our income. Also, does anyone know how long it will take for the corrections to go through? I am so confused right now!!</p>
<p>It was the same for my 2007-2008 application so does anybody know if I have to go back and correct that as well? Is that even possible?</p>
<p>that's a good question. i have never run into that before and my income is also low as well (due to social security disability payments) and still i had to do the worksheets.</p>
<p>i do know that you can correct the info but if it allowed you to skip the worksheets.....then again your financial aid office might want to see the information on the worksheets anyway, so i would check with the financial aid folks at your school and see what they say.</p>
<p>corrections take about 2-3 days.</p>
<p>One exception to the FAFSA formula is the automatic zero. If parents AGI as reported on a federal tax return is under 20K and parents file a short form (1040A or 1040EZ), then a family's EFC will be automatically set to zero and all other info on FAFSA will be ignored (e.g schedule A, B or C). </p>
<p>As I understand it, whether FAFSA allows you to skip inputting schedule A, B, or C info is state driven. FAFSA is primarily an application for federal aid programs. Schools may use FAFSA info in any way they choose when it comes to there own money. But take the state of California for instance; the state of California offers Cal Grants, which has income and asset ceilings. They will consider income and asset info from all sources and so I dont think if you are a California resident that FAFSA will let you skip, as the state will want to know for its Cal Grant program eligibilty.</p>
<p>It seems like you should have qualified for the simplified FAFSA as well?? This is what I found in another thread while I was waiting for a response...but I still don't know what it means in my case? </p>
<p>" * The parents' adjusted gross income is under $50,000.
* All family members are eligible to file an IRS Form 1040A or IRS Form 1040EZ income tax return or aren't required to file (or were eligible for certain federal means-tested programs, such as SSI, the food stamp program, the free and reduced price school lunch program, TANFF, and WIC). </p>
<p>then the family qualifies for the Simplified Needs Test which disregards assets when determining the expected family contribution. (There is also a special test called Automatic Zero EFC which applies when the parents' income (AGI) is less than $20,000.)"</p>
<p>Since I qualified for the simplified needs test, the FAFSA application said I could skip the worksheet questions, which I did. Not knowing that the worksheets would include questions about child support and not knowing that info had to be reported. I didn't realize child support was an asset. Any idea what I should do? Now I feel like the school will think I was hiding information or something when really all I did was skip the forms because it told me I could. I don't know what I'm doing really, this is only my first time dealing with this.</p>