<p>That’s terrific news! :)</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the verification guide and regulations often come out after aid offices begin the verification process. The result is that we can find out after the fact that we were supposed to be doing something … like adding the first $2400 of unemployment income into untaxed income, since the 1040 instructions are not to report it but the FAFSA instructions don’t say to include it in untaxed income. Aid offices must comply with regulations no matter what time of year we find out about them, so we sometimes have to go back & try to clean up things that may have gotten through. It’s nice when the administration can help out with grant money, as OP’s school was able to do. It softens the blow.</p>