<p>I filed my fafsa many months ago, and my UCI financial award is complete, but not online yet. However, I just got an e-mail from the Federal Student Aid regarding my fafsa correction, and I look at my SAR, and it says my EFC is now increased by $900. </p>
<p>How does that happen?</p>
<p>Go through your SAR line by line to see what input information was changed </p>
<p>Schools can (and are required to) change information on your FAFSA that they think is incorrect. If you think the change is incorrect then you need to discuss it with a financial aid officer at the school.</p>
<p>okay, but there are times they make mistakes, so do check line by line what the school did. be thankful it is only $900; our school went in and used the preliminary info from January, resubmitted it, and the difference between our adjusted May EFC and the June one the college did was a whopping $5000.</p>
<p>more later: checking with FA’s superiors to see if something can be done, but I am treading the water carefully. After all, the package is really only missing the Perkins Loan.</p>