I Am Not Familiar with How to Fill Out FAFSA and CSS. Need Help.

Paying for College
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@nynycasino1234 2018/19 FAFSA will use 2016 income, it’s prior prior year.

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@LMK999 thanks I am asking 2019/2020 FAFSA.

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^^Right, but he’s not entering school until 2019-20, so will use 2017 income/taxes when he completes the form, which will be available in Oct. It’s prior prior year for the school year, but often it is just the prior year when completing the FAFSA in October.

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Right, got it

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@twoinanddone you referred to the asset and child support questions not needing to be answered if the income threshold was low enough…but even WITH $0 income, the student would have to have one of the following to qualify for this…I believe.

  1. Ability for parent to file 1040 a or 1040 ez tx forms. That won’t apply to this parent.

OR

  1. Qualifies for a means tested benefit like free or reduced lunch or SNAP...but this student lives in Kenya...so that would not be applicable.

OR

  1. Parent is a discocated worker. We don’t know why this parent isn’t working...so it’s hard to say if this applies...or not.