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VERIFICATION What is it?

Process of Ensuring ACCURACY For What………………………the FAFSA

CONFLICTING DATA What is it

Consistency of Information Resolution Confirming ACCURACY

Across what?

What’s the difference / Who is being measured? Student Eligibility Institutional Eligibility

Administrative Capablity Disbursement

Programs

Selection

Exclusions Jon Q has been CPS selected for

Verification, he is need based but chooses to refuse his need based aid and get an unsub and plus only, can you release the funds?

Kelly V says she completed Verification @ SDU during the fall, you have no reason to doubt this; can you release current term funds?

Exclusions Larry W has a wife who is seeing a licensed

therapist for a physical disability, they were excluded from verification at their previous school and are requesting the same, can you waive the process?

Mary X has a husband in the Middle East who is on classified assignment. She has not talked to him in months and does not know exactly how to reach him, can you disburse aid?

Combat Pay – does it count?

Document – cps selections Document – institutionally selected Document – other (implied assets) Acceptable Documentation

HEA 401, 480,484,485, 487 CFR several (sections) FSA Handbook ISIR Guide

Corrections & (or vs.) Updates

Dependency #HH # in college

Application Date Verification Date Disbursement

Let’s Talk Who has a situation they would like to

share?

Let’s Talk Independent student married to a girl who

works but not in the U.S. She said she is not required to file a tax return but listed more than the minimum amount of earned income on the verification worksheet.

Let’s Talk Independent student who claimed to have

a child he supported, this was the only reason he was independent.  He is living in the dorms and gave us sworn statements that he is providing for the child even though he doesn’t work and the child lives with its mother. Enough?

Let’s Talk Student who was required to file a tax

return turned in a tax return that had all values blacked out and told us that he was afraid of identity theft and didn’t want any of his information to be seen by anyone. 

Let’s Talk Student’s parents listed married on FAFSA

and both filed tax returns as head of household because they said they claim different children as dependents.  

Let’s Talk Student reported on FAFSA that she has an

unborn child. 

Let’s Talk A student was granted a dependency override based on no

contact with parent after a huge falling out.  The school then renewed the override for the second school year after verifying that the student was still not in contact with the parent.  The student then submitted a petition in the middle of her second year asking for additional aid because she was paying her mother’s bills because her mother was unemployed.  The student also said she had been helping her mother pay the bills for over a year.

Let’s Talk Interest Income or Dividend Income and no

Assets listed

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