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Financial Aid Pitfalls

Stay on track! Don't get derailed!

"Top Ten Mistakes"

  1. Completing the FAFSA as a married student but mailing it off before your marriage date.
  1. Completing the FAFSA as a married student but forgetting to combine your spouse's taxable income with your own.
  1. Forgetting to carefully complete worksheets A, B and C and reporting the results on the appropriate line of the FAFSA.
  1. Forgetting to report earned income credit using worksheet A.
  1. Reporting income tax withheld instead of income tax paid on line 40 and/or line 74 of the FAFSA.
  1. Leaving questions blank. Remember to fill in all questions unless instructed otherwise.
  1. Mailing in FAFSA without proper signatures from student and parents if applicable.
  1. Failure to list names and Title IV codes of colleges you are considering attending.
    Note: Eastern Arizona College's Title IV code is 001073.
  1. Using a W-2 statement instead of a complete tax form to complete the FAFSA.

AND THE NUMBER 1 MISTAKE IS :

FAILURE TO READ THE INSTRUCTIONS !
 
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