<p>just an FYI -- If your parents are living together and married, your household usually wouldn't qualify for TANF or food stamps if someone in the household was making $29,000/year. That would only work if your mother filed separately and didn't acknowledge your dad's income or there was some extraordinary circumstance.</p>
<p>Make sure everything is on the up and up that your parent's filed -- I don't what kind of communication there is between different government agencies, but information on the FAFSA should match the information on the food stamp and TANF application, especially regarding household members and income. I know that social services does do a lot of cross checking to verify information.</p>