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I explained why they didn’t do that in post #330, quoting from an article a finaid.org published in 2005. If they change the AGI, it triggers changes other formulas that rely on the AGI for calculation, like state tax tables. In any case, if they had changed AGI, it very well may still have made her Pell eligible, since the income was reduced in any case --so I don’t get how you consider it “fraudulent” to subtract the number out in one field rather than another.</p>
<p>In any case the law expressly allows them to change any “data element”. Any field with a number in it is a “data element”.</p>