I have an A.A. degree from Florida State College at Jacksonville, and also have many bachelor’s credits from the University of North Florida. I recently went back to FSCJ to see if I could get accepted into any of their bachelor’s degree programs. I applied and have been accepted in into their program in Public Safety Management and it’s a BAS degree and I can enter the program with just an AA degree. I don’t have to have an AS in PSM to get accepted. Anyway, my brother is also going to school there, and he didn’t list that he lives with me on the Fasfa. Also, I have Obama Care and am getting subsidies to help me to pay for my insurance. Will me going to the same school my brother goes to cause the government to find out about my brother lying on the application. Also, if so could they ban him for a while from getting financial aid because he lied? My second choice is to go to West governor’s online university and I think there’s less chance of the government finding about about my brother lying on his application, if I do that. However, FSCJ’s program is more accredited and would benefit me more. What should I do?
Why did your brother not say he lived with you? Do your parents fill out his fafsa with him as a dependent? That’s probably correct if he’s under 24. The physical address probably won’t make a difference to his aid.
Why do you think that living with you would be a problem? If your brother were living with a non-relative roommate it would be essentially the same situation.
My brother, my father, and I all lived together last year. He listed living with my father but not living with me probably because he thought it would put him above the income he needed to get a pell grant and financial aid. However, my father no longer lives with us and moved out in June. Now our income is so low we can just barely make our bills
I don’t see that it matters if he is living with father or you. As a matter of fact, he may be qualified for more financial aid (if it is available) because he is living off campus, not with a Parent. If your father just moved and he filled his fafsa out earlier I wouldn’t exactly say he lied. Just say the situation changed and father moved out. Tell your brother to answer questions correctly next time he files his FAFSA.
Stop saying he lied. He filled out the forms last year when he did live with your father. You most likely weren’t a household member because you weren’t in school. Now you are roommates. When he files FAFSA for next year, he’ll put down his address (with you) and he’ll have to have your father fill out the FAFSA because he was the parent he lived with most in 2015. The following year, if he’s still filling out fafsa, he’d put down the parent he spent the most time with, which is probably a tie at no time with either, and then he’ll use the parent with the high income.
But I did live with my brother and my father during this whole time and brother did not list that. However my father is an ex felon and could never find a decent job, so he made less than both of us
It doesn’t matter that you were living there. All kinds of other people could have been living there too, with everyone paying their own expenses, and none of that would matter for your brother’s FAFSA. The only time it could matter for your brother’s FAFSA would be if he had no income and you were supporting him. Then whatever it was that you were paying to support your brother would be reportable as “money paid by someone else for my support” or whatever it is that that line is called.
However, since you, your dad, and your brother all were working, it is probable that each of you covered your own expenses. In that case all that matters for your brother’s FAFSA is his financial information, and your dad’s financial information.
I guess it bears repeating because you’re not hearing it: it doesn’t matter that you lived with your brother and father then AND your brother didn’t lie because at the time you weren’t enrolled at his school and he did live with your father. The fact you lived there also or do now do not matter to FAFSA or anyone, you would be considered like a roommate. Now, you’re your brother’s roommate. That’s all.
Apply for financial aid, get a good degree with internships and good grades, try to do one activity (a sport?) and you’ll be good.
Were you working full time and supporting your brother and unemployed dad? And that’s what you are referring to regarding lying (that your brother excluded you and your monetary support from his FAFSA)?
On the next FAFSA, if you are both attending college, he and you might qualify for more aid. Are you both under 24? Then you should be dependent on a parent for FAFSA.
