Our tax return was finally recognized by IDOC and sent on to my daughter’s schools. On at least a couple of her school portals, the tax return shows as received but 'not signed. Huh? It was electronically filed, and I included the final page from Turbo Tax that records the electronic submission.
Is ‘not signed’ a problem? What are they looking for, then?
Even though you electronically signed your taxes to file them, you must actually sign them pen to paper for financial aid purposes. In short, yes it is a problem. You will have to send another copies signed with your name in order for your daughters file to be processed
Thanks! Will IDOC ‘know’ what to do if I delete the 1040 I’ve got uploaded, and which they sent to the schools, and upload a replacement? The 1040 no longer shows on my ‘to do’ list there.
A couple other of my daughter’s schools show the 1040 as received and ‘signed’, so there does appear to be variation in how this is handled.
I spoke to the College Board IDOC people yesterday and they specifically told me since they were having so many technical issues, the colleges are being informed and will “possibly” change their due dates.
In this thread someone got the okay from the IDOC folks to use the digital signing in Adobe Acrobat reader. I have not tried it.
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1740587-idoc-processing-times-p1.html
The word from IDOC customer service is to upload the new signed copy and give it a name like ‘updated signed 1040’ and it will be processed appropriately and sent out to the schools.
That was me. Mine shows as processed on idoc, I guess we’ll see if a college has a problem with it.
Actually, I had to fax returns to a college that doesn’t do idoc and they show my Acrobat-signed returns as received. I used the built-in function in Adobe Acrobat to sign it with a certificate.
I think the confusion is that the digital signature (final page of the turbo tax) when you send your taxes is usually a digital number, not “signed name”, which is what the school needs on the tax forms. It has been my experience that some schools have sent the documents back asking for a signature. Students took the forms home, I scanned them and sent them back to the schools (with no further problems)