FSCJ Financial Aid

[nicoleb933]

I start school Monday. However, I found out last week my financial aid is still under review because I haven't submitted my husband's tax return transcript. I'm upset because I submitted my application for financial aid back in June and was never told anything about needing it. But how am I suppose to go about getting funding or his information if we are currently separated?

[videogamesrock]

I start school Monday. However, I found out last week my financial aid is still under review because I haven't submitted my husband's tax return transcript. I'm upset because I submitted my application for financial aid back in June and was never told anything about needing it. But how am I suppose to go about getting funding or his information if we are currently separated?

You can file a special circumstance agreement with the school. Start there. Did you file separate returns for 2014?

[nicoleb933]

Yes we did

[rebel100]

Try to amend the application and link electronically to the return in question.

[videogamesrock]

Yes we did

Since you filed seperate returns and do not live together, explain to financial aid this and your husbands returns should be irrelevant.

[nicoleb933]

Since you filed seperate returns and do not live together, explain to financial aid this and your husbands returns should be irrelevant.

They said that I needed proof that we are separated. However we don't have joint anything so I have no idea how to go about doing that.

[videogamesrock]

They said that I needed proof that we are separated. However we don't have joint anything so I have no idea how to go about doing that.

Explain to them that the reason why you filed separate returns is because you are separated.

[Prloko]

Can you draft a legal separation? Is your husband willing to sign one if you presented it to him?

Here's something I found using google. I hope it helps:

FinAid | Financial Aid Applications | Head of Household

[videogamesrock]

FinAid | Professional Judgment | Divorce and Separation

According to this, you do not need documentation of informal separation. I've worked with many awful financial aid representatives that had me gather lots of unnecessary documentation over the past few years (they are poorly trained and as Trump would say, stupid, stupid people). Just explain that you have an informal separation and the tax forms prove that you two are not together. Insist on speaking to a supervisor preferrable one with a degree.

For example, the College of Southern Nevada wanted my wife to use her 2012 Canadian tax returns and convert the income to U.S. dollars to compute her financial aid. This school at the time hired by far the dumbest people to work there with little to no education . A few weeks later they school was fined for botching tens of thousands of financial aid over the past few years (underpaying and overpaying). It turned out since she was not required to file U.S. taxes in 2012, she could not provide a U.S. tax return, and therefore the application should have just been processed then and there. As for education requirements for working in many schools financial aid department, they are looking for GED's and up.