Family information

[jestjest]

<p>Does anyone know the protocol for FAFSA, CSS, and family information for applications if parents are unmarried, live together, and file separate tax returns (with only one parent claiming a child as a dependent)?</p>

[4kidsdad]

<p>See [IFAP</a> - Dear Colleague Letters](<a href=“http://ifap.ed.gov/dpcletters/GEN1312.html]IFAP”>http://ifap.ed.gov/dpcletters/GEN1312.html)

Beginning with the 2014-2015 FAFSA, dependent students will be required to include on the FAFSA income and other information from the dependent student’s legal parents (biological or adoptive) regardless of the parents’ marital status or gender, if those parents live together. The information provided on the FAFSA will be used in the calculation of the student’s expected family contribution (EFC), which in turn, will determine the student’s eligibility for aid from the federal Title IV, HEA need-based student financial assistance programs (i.e. the Federal Pell Grant Program, Federal Direct Subsidized Loan Program, and Federal Campus-Based programs).

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[mom2collegekids]

<p>Beginning with the 2014-2015 FAFSA, dependent students will be required to include on the FAFSA income and other information from the dependent student’s legal parents (biological or adoptive) regardless of the parents’ marital status or gender, if those parents live together. The</p>

<p>It’s about time. Not doing so before was ridiculous.</p>

<p>Jest…it doesn’t matter who claims the child on taxes.</p>