FAFSA & tax filing

drancourt5
Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:30:39 +0000

We are about to file our 2010 taxes and my child is in their fisrt year of college and do to personal tragedies we have lost more than half our income and all our saving. Do to other post I see that she can file her own taxes and still be claimed as a dependant, she did not make that much. How does this affect her FAFSA? Are we suppose to still list our income on there? Or would she be better off filing on her own and just listing her income? Which will benifit us more for financial aid? In the end we just want her to stay in college.