Highlight flags?

Paying for College
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<p>Hi guys,</p>

<p>I was just curious if I should be concerned about highlight flags on my SAR for FAFSA. I reported everything honestly from my mom and my tax returns, so will there be a problem in my financial aid? The main reason for these highlight flags is because our income has changed a lot.</p>

<p>Thanks guys!</p>

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<p>Here’s FAFSA’s description of a highlight flag:
A highlight flag appears to the right of any information that may be inconsistent, missing, or contradictory with other information reported. Be sure to review any information with a highlight flag.</p>

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<p>What do you mean when you say “because our income has changed a lot?” Did you update the FAFSA after you filed it this year?</p>

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<p>I actually have no idea how our income changed so dramatically, but I simply put all the information from the 2008 1040 tax papers onto the 2009-2010 FAFSA. I didn’t just blindly add in fake digits, these are straight from the 1040 papers. And I just submitted my FAFSA (our priority deadline is March 31st) with the 2008 tax info. So I guess I’m asking, should be concerned about these highlight flags?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>Which fields are highlighted? You can pm me if you want with the fields & the numbers - I can try to help you figure out what could be going on.</p>