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<p>I understand that. The discussion about my situation was because sk8rmom posted that colleges could not use PJ unless requested to do so by the financial applicant, and I posted that 3 times (at least) in my experience, colleges have in fact made changes to the FAFSA without my request.</p>
<p>It seems you now are claiming that PJ can only be used to reduce the EFC, never to increase it – but 2 out of the 3 times that PJ was used, without my asking, it was done to substantially increase values that were entered into particular field on what I thought was an arbitrary basis. My son was not eligible for Pell the years that was done (2001, 2002), but it did result in an increased EFC. </p>
<p>Leaving aside the issue of the automatic 0, if a person’s EFC, are you contending that the financial aid office is not allowed to use PJ to change data in fields if it reflects higher income than the applicant has reported? That PJ can only be used to lower EFC, never to raise it? </p>
<p>If so, can you please point me to the LAW or provision in the financial aid manual? </p>
<p>I interpret a law that says “nothing in this law shall limit the authority of the financial aid officer” to mean just that. If there is something in the law… all I am asking, and have been asking all along, is that someone point me to the reference.</p>
<p>I have been citing to law and citing to the manual published by the Dept. of Education. Everyone else in this thread simply makes bald assertions – they can do this, they can’t do that – but I don’t think anyone else has linked to or cited to a single thing to back up their assertions. That’s all I’m asking.</p>