Major Financial Aid Difficulty

MasonStudent
Wed, 30 Oct 2013 02:31:17 +0000

So I am an undergraduate sophomore and I am having some ridiculous financial aid difficulties. I have filed the past two years using my mom’s financial information and it went fine. Since last year though, she got married and she and her new husband refuse to help me for the coming school year filling out the FAFSA which opens January 1st for the 2014-2015 school year. They have stated multiple times that they will not help and I am not sure what to do. My dad would fill out the financial aid information, but he illegally hasn’t filed taxes for the past five years or so, so how would that work on the FAFSA, since the IRS wouldn’t give him a letter of non-filing and my school will want to know why he hasn’t filed taxes and why I can’t provide his financial information. My counselor told me to just check that he had no income and isn’t filing, but the previous university I attended told me that they needed proof that he didn’t have to file taxes, which I can’t provide, because he is supposed to be filing taxes, because he does have an income. It’s a huge mess and all I want to do is be able to fill out my FAFSA so that I can get through school and move on with my life. Does anyone have in depth knowledge or suggestions of how to handle this?