Comments on: How to File the FAFSA Without Your Parents’ Information http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/04/13/how-to-file-the-fafsa-without-your-parents-information/ Money issues for college students and 20-somethings, without being boring. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:22:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Darin Warren http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/04/13/how-to-file-the-fafsa-without-your-parents-information/#comment-226357 Darin Warren Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:57:43 +0000 http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/04/13/how-to-file-the-fafsa-without-your-parents-information/#comment-226357 Parents are not obligated to help their kids BORROW money and get in HUGE debt. Get a job, or 2, save your own money and pay your own way. Cash. Or better yet, land a good husband. Parents are not obligated to help their kids BORROW money and get in HUGE debt. Get a job, or 2, save your own money and pay your own way. Cash. Or better yet, land a good husband.

]]> By: Daneen http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/04/13/how-to-file-the-fafsa-without-your-parents-information/#comment-204312 Daneen Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:48:07 +0000 http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/04/13/how-to-file-the-fafsa-without-your-parents-information/#comment-204312 I would love to help my daughter with college. But my husband and I haven't filed our taxes due to our account charging 3X($12,000) the amount to file our business taxes one year and he won't file our other years till we pay him for that year. We are in the mortgage business and times have been tough. My mother would co-sign for my daughter for a non-government Sallie Mae loan but the college my daughter is going to is not on the list and refuses to be put on the list. If she ever gets an unsubsidized loan will she be able to get a regular student loan once we get our situation controlled and is there any student loans that the college doesn't have to be on the list. Thanks any info would be greatly appreciateed. I would love to help my daughter with college. But my husband and I haven’t filed our taxes due to our account charging 3X($12,000) the amount to file our business taxes one year and he won’t file our other years till we pay him for that year. We are in the mortgage business and times have been tough. My mother would co-sign for my daughter for a non-government Sallie Mae loan but the college my daughter is going to is not on the list and refuses to be put on the list. If she ever gets an unsubsidized loan will she be able to get a regular student loan once we get our situation controlled and is there any student loans that the college doesn’t have to be on the list.

Thanks any info would be greatly appreciateed.

]]> By: Alexa http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/04/13/how-to-file-the-fafsa-without-your-parents-information/#comment-192166 Alexa Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:54:27 +0000 http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/04/13/how-to-file-the-fafsa-without-your-parents-information/#comment-192166 Hi claudia i had some questions and i was hoping you could help. My mother passed away last year and i moved in with my 26 year old sister however my dad claimed me on his tax returns and due to his income and his wife's income i did not get any financial aid even though i do not live with him and he has no intentions on helping me pay for school. He is also planning on moving to another state this year and i was wondering if there is anything i can do to claim myself independent. Hi claudia i had some questions and i was hoping you could help. My mother passed away last year and i moved in with my 26 year old sister however my dad claimed me on his tax returns and due to his income and his wife’s income i did not get any financial aid even though i do not live with him and he has no intentions on helping me pay for school. He is also planning on moving to another state this year and i was wondering if there is anything i can do to claim myself independent.

]]> By: Kristina Forsha http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/04/13/how-to-file-the-fafsa-without-your-parents-information/#comment-181802 Kristina Forsha Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:20:12 +0000 http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/04/13/how-to-file-the-fafsa-without-your-parents-information/#comment-181802 I am currently having problems myself with financial aid. I haven't lived with my mother since October 15th, 2009. I was living with my boyfriends parents from that time until April 6th, 2010 because I had gotten a job and me and my boyfriend had found a decent apartment for a decent price and had signed a years lease. I lost my job September 24th, 2010 and my boyfriend had had his hours severely cut so we just could not afford to sign another lease together. My boyfriends parents didn't really want me coming to live with them again because they don't really like me in the first place the only reason they let me before is because their son (my boyfriend) kept begging them to please help me with a place to live because I was going to have nowhere else to go. My boyfriend was welcomed back into his parents home with wide open arms and my mom still wouldn't help me by giving me a place to live so I had to go to a homeless shelter the last day of the lease when it was up which was June 1st, 2011 and I have been there since. Financial Aid at "Anthem College" where I am trying to go is telling me that I can't be considered independent because I am under 24 and to be considered independent I have to be 24, Married, Award of the State, Have children, or be emancipated and I am none of that. I am homeless for god sakes I have to support myself on a day to day basis for the most part besides being fed at the homeless shelter and clothed It's not coming out of the shelters direct money so I pretty much am supporting myself. But for some reason according to the guy I talked to at financial aid I am not independent so I still need my parents tax information. This is bull shit. Why does it ask on the FAFSA if since June 6, 2010 have I been homeless or at risk of being homeless. I say yes it tells you what qualifies you as homeless and I fit the bill I click the other option they give you besides "I will be providing parental information" that says "I am homeless or at risk of being homeless" and it doesn't provide a space for there tax info if it really needs it. Then it says at the end that my FAFSA application is incomplete and I still need to provide my parents tax information. What the hell? That makes no f-n sense. Why in the hell is it so hard to get an education? It should be free, just like it is to go to public school. I am currently having problems myself with financial aid. I haven’t lived with my mother since October 15th, 2009. I was living with my boyfriends parents from that time until April 6th, 2010 because I had gotten a job and me and my boyfriend had found a decent apartment for a decent price and had signed a years lease. I lost my job September 24th, 2010 and my boyfriend had had his hours severely cut so we just could not afford to sign another lease together. My boyfriends parents didn’t really want me coming to live with them again because they don’t really like me in the first place the only reason they let me before is because their son (my boyfriend) kept begging them to please help me with a place to live because I was going to have nowhere else to go. My boyfriend was welcomed back into his parents home with wide open arms and my mom still wouldn’t help me by giving me a place to live so I had to go to a homeless shelter the last day of the lease when it was up which was June 1st, 2011 and I have been there since. Financial Aid at “Anthem College” where I am trying to go is telling me that I can’t be considered independent because I am under 24 and to be considered independent I have to be 24, Married, Award of the State, Have children, or be emancipated and I am none of that. I am homeless for god sakes I have to support myself on a day to day basis for the most part besides being fed at the homeless shelter and clothed It’s not coming out of the shelters direct money so I pretty much am supporting myself. But for some reason according to the guy I talked to at financial aid I am not independent so I still need my parents tax information. This is bull shit. Why does it ask on the FAFSA if since June 6, 2010 have I been homeless or at risk of being homeless. I say yes it tells you what qualifies you as homeless and I fit the bill I click the other option they give you besides “I will be providing parental information” that says “I am homeless or at risk of being homeless” and it doesn’t provide a space for there tax info if it really needs it. Then it says at the end that my FAFSA application is incomplete and I still need to provide my parents tax information. What the hell? That makes no f-n sense. Why in the hell is it so hard to get an education? It should be free, just like it is to go to public school.

]]> By: Alicia http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/04/13/how-to-file-the-fafsa-without-your-parents-information/#comment-176805 Alicia Sat, 17 Sep 2011 04:50:11 +0000 http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/04/13/how-to-file-the-fafsa-without-your-parents-information/#comment-176805 This is awesome! Guess I might not have to get hitched! JK. This is awesome! Guess I might not have to get hitched! JK.

]]> By: tlee http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/04/13/how-to-file-the-fafsa-without-your-parents-information/#comment-171955 tlee Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:39:20 +0000 http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/04/13/how-to-file-the-fafsa-without-your-parents-information/#comment-171955 long story short. signing any govt. form leaves you open to their scrutiny and to screw you. why do they have this stupid rule anyway? because it is better for them. don't fool yourselves people into thinking that a handout from the government is easy or even worth it! i won't give my info to my daughter and neither will her dad. she is an adult by law (21 in a couple months...old enough to drink, smoke, die for her country and vote...but not fill her own fafsa?!!utterly RIDICULOUS and i am not gonna have my arm twisted behind my back by the government to do something they shouldn't be expecting me to do) and she should be able to file her own damn fafsa without me and i am not the bad guy, either. the damn government is. i know i don't have to pay a dime for her school, just fill out the fafsa. what's the big deal, right? oh, just that, like i said, when you sign a government form, you sign away all your rights and that's a big deal to me, just sayin'. long story short. signing any govt. form leaves you open to their scrutiny and to screw you. why do they have this stupid rule anyway? because it is better for them. don’t fool yourselves people into thinking that a handout from the government is easy or even worth it! i won’t give my info to my daughter and neither will her dad. she is an adult by law (21 in a couple months…old enough to drink, smoke, die for her country and vote…but not fill her own fafsa?!!utterly RIDICULOUS and i am not gonna have my arm twisted behind my back by the government to do something they shouldn’t be expecting me to do) and she should be able to file her own damn fafsa without me and i am not the bad guy, either. the damn government is. i know i don’t have to pay a dime for her school, just fill out the fafsa. what’s the big deal, right? oh, just that, like i said, when you sign a government form, you sign away all your rights and that’s a big deal to me, just sayin’.

]]> By: Roxane http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/04/13/how-to-file-the-fafsa-without-your-parents-information/#comment-171241 Roxane Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:40:55 +0000 http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/04/13/how-to-file-the-fafsa-without-your-parents-information/#comment-171241 They do have this ability. You set up your own login on the FAFSA site. The student begins the process, once it is in the system, you create your login and complete the parents portion. It is connected to your child's app by entering their name, dob and last 4 of their ssn#. This information is NOT accessible to the student and is only provided to the financial aide office, and they do not disclose the information as far as ssn etc to the student. They only tell the student what they are eligible for. If backup documents are required, you can go to the financial aide office and provide them that information without your child having any access to it. They do have this ability. You set up your own login on the FAFSA site. The student begins the process, once it is in the system, you create your login and complete the parents portion. It is connected to your child’s app by entering their name, dob and last 4 of their ssn#. This information is NOT accessible to the student and is only provided to the financial aide office, and they do not disclose the information as far as ssn etc to the student. They only tell the student what they are eligible for. If backup documents are required, you can go to the financial aide office and provide them that information without your child having any access to it.

]]> By: Mr Warren http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/04/13/how-to-file-the-fafsa-without-your-parents-information/#comment-162288 Mr Warren Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:47:26 +0000 http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/04/13/how-to-file-the-fafsa-without-your-parents-information/#comment-162288 I think my daughter would be wasting years of her life and many tens of thousands of dollars going to college. Just one of the reasons I WON'T be helping her with the fafsa. I think my daughter would be wasting years of her life and many tens of thousands of dollars going to college. Just one of the reasons I WON’T be helping her with the fafsa.

]]> By: Darin Warren http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/04/13/how-to-file-the-fafsa-without-your-parents-information/#comment-159115 Darin Warren Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:41:57 +0000 http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/04/13/how-to-file-the-fafsa-without-your-parents-information/#comment-159115 We won't be providing any information. Oh well. Time for daughter to save. We won’t be providing any information. Oh well. Time for daughter to save.

]]> By: Momster http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/04/13/how-to-file-the-fafsa-without-your-parents-information/#comment-158103 Momster Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:09:29 +0000 http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/04/13/how-to-file-the-fafsa-without-your-parents-information/#comment-158103 I'm a parent who can pay for college, but not willing to provide our SSNs for our student's FAFSA next year. We have reasonable concerns, based on the student's behavior, that identity theft is a real risk. If they'd simply set it up so the student is able to create accounts for parents to log into separately and our information is not shared, it would not be an issue. I’m a parent who can pay for college, but not willing to provide our SSNs for our student’s FAFSA next year. We have reasonable concerns, based on the student’s behavior, that identity theft is a real risk.

If they’d simply set it up so the student is able to create accounts for parents to log into separately and our information is not shared, it would not be an issue.

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