Use 2017 taxes and the income on that form (2017 income).
Use 2017. You do not have a choice
If work study is check you may or may not get it. If you don’t get a work study job, that’s okay, the money is never transferred to you.
4 & 5) One parent and the student need IDs. You have to use different emails. FAFSA is for the student; parents don’t have a separate filing.
contributions to 401k during 2017 will be added back in to income. There is a line in the parent’s section about it.
the form will ask for each parent’s income separately; other assets can be entered jointly
? enter the number in the family currently
enter the student’s assets in the student section. Is it your money or your parents’ money?
No, only enter 2017 income
You can get it almost immediately if you answer the questions correctly and social security can match your answers with SSN. If you screw it up (guess who did that not only for her daughter (wrong SSN) but for herself (wrong birth date?) it takes several days for you to be allowed to try again. And if you STILL screw it up, it takes more days… Lesson? Enter the figures correctly.