[Oasfaa] Parents married?

[Kandi Molder]

I believe they should come in with the comment code of 361 - 368 that says the marital status reported does not appeal to match the filing status if their marital status doesn’t match their filing status.  My understanding is that we are encouraged to verify this information but it is not required. Thank you, ED. ☺

We treat it as conflicting information. We have a form where we ask them to verify their marital status, date, and filing status and then if their FAFSA is incorrect, then we have them update it.

Kandi Molder
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From: OASFAA [mailto:oasfaa-bounces at lists.onenet.net] On Behalf Of Lori Deardorff
Sent: Friday, June 1, 2018 7:46 AM
To: Jonna Raney <Jonna.Raney at okbu.edu>
Cc: oasfaa at lists.onenet.net
Subject: Re: [Oasfaa] Parents married?

Jonna,

The way I was taught,  if they are remarried then we are suppose to ask for the new spouses tax info and W-2's and add it in with theirs on the FAFSA, so it looks like your not the only "bad school".😇
love ya,
Lori Deardorff
Director of Financial Aid-Traditional
Southern Nazarene University
6729 NW 39th Expressway
Bethany, OK 73008
(405) 491-6382
ldeardorff at snu.edu<mailto:ldeardorff at snu.edu>



On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Jonna Raney <Jonna.Raney at okbu.edu<mailto:Jonna.Raney at okbu.edu>> wrote:

I'm finding many students that still struggle with the parent's marital status. I'm finding them by running a report of those that show divorced/separated but filed married joint or married separate returns.



I know this can happen, but when the divorce/separation date is 2005, I find that they answered the question based on the biological parents but the custodial is remarried. In most cases, I think it's an honest error but then the income questions only ask for one parent's income info so they usually qualify for more aid than they should.



I have 78 students on the report that I ran today. My question is, are any of you researching, institutionally selecting, or otherwise trying to resolve what I consider to be conflicting info? It's time consuming and of course, makes you the "bad school" if other schools don't resolve it, but I feel like it should be looked at to protect tax dollars for which these students are not eligible.



What do you think? no judgment...just asking. 😊





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Jonna Raney

Director of Student Financial Services

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Oklahoma Baptist University




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