<p>Just want to offer commiseration to all the other parents and students who are having to comply with IDOC requirements. Doing our taxes so early and quickly and filling in the additional IDOC forms is a time burden. I'm tempted to have my husband enter "filling out financial aid applications" as his occupation.</p>
<p>I’m in IDOC hell with you (or your H) today! Hope you get everything done with time left to enjoy your Sunday :)</p>
<p>Did it for the 3rd time last weekend. 3 years down, 1 to go!</p>
<p>While you’ll have to do this each year to renew your student’s aid, it is MUCH easier after the first time. First, you pretty much know what to expect. Second, the deadlines aren’t so early (usually). Third, you’ll just be dealing with one school at a time… or however many kids you have in college in any given year. We do two schools now, my son’s and my daughter’s. And doing it all at the same time as tax season is time consuming, but also very convenient since you’re already in that mode with your taxes.</p>
<p>Good luck! Hang in there. I’m pretty close to submitting my very last FAFSA and very last CSS Profile and then the very last IDOC packet. Woot!</p>
<p>The later deadlines do help, I will have fafsa, CSS and IDOC for 4 years but the "greenness’ of when it was just my son has passed…still hate it, still have an occasional question, but I’m not quite as flustered.</p>
<p>congrats 'rentof2. My only consolation is that April 15th is gonna be a breeze this year ;-)</p>
<p>so all you experienced IDOC’ers… when they ask for the document owner’s SSN to be written at the top of each document, does that include every page of the tax return? For a couple filing jointly, do you just choose one for the parts of the return that apply to both? Do I need to write S’s SSN at the top of his non-filer statement even though it is requested just a few lines below? Thanks!</p>
<p>I think they want that although I think I just did the first. If the third page gets seperated, they will know who it belongs too.
I would do it on your son’s also…can’t hurt to be overly careful.</p>