<p>FAFSA specifically requires one spouse to have left the household.</p>
<p>That’s interesting because there were two students on CC where both parents still lived in the household and they were only declaring their lower income parent’s income because that was supposedly their “custodial parent”. </p>
<p>I thought that was rather flaky because obviously the lower income parents’ were not paying for all/most of the household expenses yet by only claiming one income, it gave the appearance that that was the case.</p>
<p>I think if both are living in the same household then both incomes should be counted. I know that’s not the case iwth the OP, but was the case with two students on CC last spring.</p>