<p>I said I would help one of my daughters friends with her application to local CC. She is coming to my house tonight. Parents are in process of divorce, and it may be finalized. Is there a way on FAFSA to prevent child from seeing data re parents, the student is concerned her mom wont give data if anyway her dad can pressure her to let him see it.</p>
<p>No, there is no way to prevent the student seeing the parent data on FAFSA. The student has access to their SAR through their PIN number and can see all the information on it.</p>
<p>Is Mom the custodial parent? Only the parent the student lives with has to report their info on FAFSA. If this is for next fall, then FAFSA is not available until Jan 1st anyway. </p>
<p>Whether the divorce is final by then or not, the student needs to tell the Dad she can not share the information with him.</p>
<p>Oh, one thought. I wonder if filing a paper FAFSA might help in this situation. With a paper FAFSA there is presumably no online access to the data. (I honestly have no idea how it would work with a paper FAFSA, but it might be worth looking into)</p>
<p>Mom should not be placing daughter in the middle of this and should be dealing directly with her soon to be ex. Won’t the financial information be shared eventually in their divorce agreement, especially if she is looking to receive child support, spousal maintenance or when it comes to the division of the marital assets. </p>
<p>Even filing the paper FAFSA, the daughter will still be able to access the information if she really wanted to.</p>
<p>from the paper FAFSA</p>
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<p>Is Mom low income? If not then the only aid the student would likely get at a CC is unsubsidized loans. It is possible to file FAFSA without parent information and get unsubsidized loans. I think the parent has to provide documentation saying they refuse to provide the information. The student would not be eligible for grants or subsidized loans, just unsub loans. ( I’m thinking if the parent’s income is low enough to qualify for grants or sub loans, the ex seeing the info would probably not be such an issue).</p>
<p>Swimcat – mom is moderate income (I think), and I think mom would be eligible for the NYS TAP program. DD spends more than time at moms than dads. Thanks for thoughts.</p>
<p>Student uses their own pin to apply for TAP. There is no parent PIN and the parent does not have to do anything when applying for TAP. The information on TAP application is pulled directly from the FAFSA.</p>
<p>Thank you sybbie, so to get TAP, one must fill out FAFSA (which is what I thought), and student can obtain parents info off of FAFSA. I am in no position to tell mom what to do. I think it is never easy to project what and when divorced parents are required to dislcose to each other. Once it has been set, it may be that it is number of years, that it is revisited.</p>
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<p>Yes. If the FAFSA information is not there, TAP will alert the student that there is no information there and will ask if they have filed the FAFSA. The great think about doing the FAFSA on line is when you file, there is a link that you can click once you submit the FAFSA that will take you directly to TAP and you file the TAP application simultaneously (you only get one opportunity to do this).</p>
<p>* mom is moderate income (I think), and I think mom would be eligible for the NYS TAP program. DD spends more than time at moms than dads. Thanks for thoughts. *</p>
<p>Then the mom is the custodial parent, only her income will be used, and so there’s no reason for the dad to see anything. Right?</p>
<p>What OP wanted to know, is was there any way to prevent the child (student) from seeing the financial information, so that she would not be in a position to be pressured to either show the information to the NCP or share the info with the NCP.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>Ahh…</p>
<p>Ugh…</p>
<p>If the mom were to set up the child’s PIN and her own PIN, then the child would never know the PIN…I know, that’s not really ethical, but in such situations, the ends may justify the means. The D would then be able to tell her dad that she doesn’t have access to the file.</p>
<p>This problem might come up every year.</p>
<p>I would not advise a parent to do something that is not only unethical, but illegal especially since there is a tenuous relationship between the parents.</p>
<p>Imagine, if dad did ask his daughter the information, she says she does not know because she did not sign. Dad could allege that mom forged the documents (minimally forged his child’s signature or pin by shutting her out of the process)</p>
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