<p>Please help.</p>
<p>You can be verified whenever they think necessary. Usually it would be done before you receive any aid. But, of course, if a school has any reason to think your data is incorrect they are obliged to investigate even after the event.</p>
<p>Actually, any time you update your FAFSA you run the risk of being selected for verification. I have had to verify students at the end of the year because they added a school code to their FAFSA in order to receive summer aid at another school … and some of them ended up having to pay back aid as a result. If the student is selected for verification after aid has been disbursed, the school is required to verify the student. The only exception is if the student is selected while no longer enrolled at the school for that award year … however, if the student returns in any future term during that school year, verification has to be completed.</p>