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- From: Steve Olsen <SRO@arlan.byu.edu>
- Newsgroups: misc.taxes
- Subject: Re: Savings Bonds for College; Student Financial Aid
- Message-ID: <MAILQUEUE-101.921123182325.416@arlan.byu.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 18:23:25 -0600 (MDT)
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- > If I remember correctly there is a section in the FAF that asks you
- > about the value of your home (or parents home). Can someone verify
- > this? >
-
- FedTax-L-ers,
- For 1993-94, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (which all
- students must use to apply for Federal financial aid) will exclude
- home equity for all students, spouses, and parents. It will also
- exclude "family farm equity, if the family lives on the farm."
-
- In addition, independent students (based on the Department of
- Education's criteria), or parents of dependent students, who do not
- file a Form 1040, and have an adjusted gross income under $50,000,
- will not have to list any assets on the need analysis form for Federal
- financial aid. Anyone who qualifies for the full earned income
- credit will automatically qualify for the maximum amount of Federal
- financial aid.
-
- These rules are new starting with 1993-94. For the 1992-93 academic
- year, and prior years (at least five, as I recall), home equity, farm
- equity, and other assets had to be reported if the student, spouse,
- or parents filed a Form 1040, or if the adjusted gross income of the
- student, spouse, and parents was $15,000 or more.
-
- Students and parents may fill out the CSS FAF form, the ACT FFS form,
- or the PHEAA form, to apply for private, state, and institutional
- financial aid, but cannot be required to do so to apply only for
- Federal financial aid.
-
- Steve Olsen
- BYU Financial Aid Office
- Provo, Utah
- sro@arlan.byu.edu
-