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Dependency Status Flashcards

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  1. Which of the following automatically qualifies a student as INDEPENDENT on the FAFSA?

    Answer: Being 24 years of age or older

    Students who are 24 or older as of January 1 of the award year are automatically classified as independent.

  2. A dependent student must report whose financial information on the FAFSA?

    Answer: Their parents' information

    Dependent students must report both their own and their parents' financial and demographic information on the FAFSA.

  3. Which of the following students is considered INDEPENDENT on the FAFSA?

    Answer: A married 19-year-old

    Married students are considered independent on the FAFSA regardless of age.

  4. A student who is a veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces is classified as which type of student?

    Answer: Independent

    Veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces are automatically classified as independent students on the FAFSA.

  5. If a dependent student's parents are divorced, whose information is reported on the FAFSA?

    Answer: The parent the student lived with most in the past 12 months

    For divorced parents, the FAFSA requires information from the parent with whom the student lived most during the past 12 months.

  6. An emancipated minor is classified as which type of student on the FAFSA?

    Answer: Independent

    Emancipated minors are classified as independent students on the FAFSA regardless of age.