The first step, before filling out the FAFSA, is to create an FSA ID, which serves as an electronic signature. All contributors – a parent, step-parent, spouse or anyone else required to provide information on a student's form – must create an FSA ID. Parents and students can find a...
if you were a dependent and your parents were either divorced or separated, you would have used the financial information of the parent you lived with the most in the tax year for your FAFSA®. However, with the 2024-25 FAFSA®, the financial information of the parent providing the most...
Allow about an hour to complete the online FAFSA form. Remember that there are different sections for student, student spouse, parent, and parent spouse or partner. Note that the online FAFSA may ask some questions in different order, and may skip some questions based upon your answers. Make...
Determining whether a child is counted as a dependent is not just based on financial support; children must live with the parent for more than half the tax year. For example, if the custodial parent has remarried, the stepparent’s children from previous marriages will not count, even if th...
2. Different parent may need to fill out FAFSA The FAFSA has new rules for divorced parents of dependent students. Starting with the 2024-25 form, the parent who provided the most financial support for the student over the last 12 months will be the FAFSA contributor. If this parent is re...
5. Other parent information Here's where you fill in the information for the student's other parent, if applicable. Just fill out the basic information, provide consent to transfer federal tax info from the IRS, and press "Approve."
A contributor is anyone such as you, a spouse, a biological or adoptive parent, or a parent’s spouse who’s required to provide their information on a FAFSA®, along with their consent and approval to share their tax information from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), for the form to...
Previously, it was the parent that the student lived with the most over the last year. "The biggest change for parents and students who've had an EFC before is that they can see a negative number and that may throw them off," says Sara Reese, director of compliance at College ...
Previously, it was the parent that the student lived with the most over the last year. "The biggest change for parents and students who've had an EFC before is that they can see a negative number and that may throw them off," says Sara Reese, director of compliance at College Aid ...
anyone who’s required to provide their information on a FAFSA®, along with their consent and approval to share their tax information from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for the form to be processed. A contributor may be a spouse, a biological or adoptive parent, or a parent’s ...