[Oasfaa] Parents married?

[Castleberry, Rita]

Jonna,

If we catch them we ask for the new spouse’s information to be corrected, and yes we hear often my other school didn’t ask.

Rita Castleberry, Director
Financial Aid/Scholarships
Northwestern Oklahoma State University
709 Oklahoma Blvd
Alva, OK  73717
(580)327-8540
Fax (580)327-8177
rjcastleberry at nwosu.edu<mailto:rjcastleberry at nwosu.edu>

From: OASFAA [mailto:oasfaa-bounces at lists.onenet.net] On Behalf Of Jonna Raney
Sent: Friday, June 1, 2018 7:59 AM
To: Lori Deardorff <ldeardorff at mail.snu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Oasfaa] Parents married?

Right but if they aren’t selected for verif, how are finding them? Ours will just go thru and get packaged unless I run a report to find them and institutionally select them. We catch the ones the govt selects for verif.

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From: Lori Deardorff <ldeardorff at mail.snu.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 1, 2018 7:46:19 AM
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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
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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

405.585.5020
Oklahoma Baptist University




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