You made a blanket statement that Pell is an entitlement if a student qualifies for aid. Your statement is wrong. A student can qualify for aid without being Pell eligible. That is a fact and I’m making a statement to correct your error so that people don’t think that just because they receive a merit or some other institution specific award they are also eligible for Pell. Yes, OP thinks they may have committed fraud and the advice they have received to contact their FA office at their institution is perfect because no one in this thread regardless of who they are or where they work knows the exact details of the OPs FAFSA.