Received an email today to advise me my child’s FAFSA update had. Even successfully processed…however we didn’t touch it since submission months ago?!? Logged onto account and see a log of updates indicating today my child’s FAFSA was successfully updated by “College”?!? No specific college noted!!!
Anyone have experience with such a notice?!? Why would a college update my child’s FAFSA in any way? Is this normal?!?
Given all the ID theft out there just freaked us out a bit.
Sometimes colleges DO update your FAFSA.
You need to get your original out…and compare the current one line by line to see what change was made.
We have a “college” updating ours, too. Not sure what to do about it, we just keep correcting it and re-submitting.
What would a college be able or permitted to update on my child’s FAFSA—it’s all personal financial data (and ours was done through the IRS link) except for the colleges listed on the form?
If the correction the college made is NOT correct…contact the college! Let them know…and have documentation to support your accuracy.
Schools do sometimes make mistakes…but very often, there is something that doesn’t align with your tax return or other info…and they are required to make the correction.
For us they keep changing question 29 https://fafsa.ed.gov/fotw1718/help/fotw16b.htm
Ours is a high school senior with dual enrollment so the answer is “Never attended college / 1st yr”
but some one keeps changing it to “2nd yr/sophomore”
Thanks I’ll go check again to see what they’re playing with. At a minimum we should be advised exactly WHICH “college” is touching our forms!!!
We had this too. I didn’t enter the financial info into FAFSA; it came pulled in from DRT. And some unknown “college” added that we had made pension contributions ( but that was all in DRT, so totally confused why it would not already be included)
@Booajo same happened here, should have been pulled in from the DRT. We submitted in October, so maybe it was a DRT glitch at that time they’re now catching?!?’ Mystery solved, but again we should know who is touching our data!
@Meant2B Totally agree. Super annoying. Our EFC went up quite a bit.
@Booajo same here
If you have pretax retirement contributions such as 401k, the DRT will not bring those into the FAFSA because that income is not taxed on your tax return.
So you are supposed to list any 2016 pretax retirement contributions in question 94 a on the FAFSA.
So if you didn’t report this in question 94a and the college has your form W2 and saw that you had this extra untaxed income, then they can correct the FAFSA to include it