Question about two different EFC for 2 students

[amycoop1973]

@BelknapPoint

When I called the FAFSA they told me to put zero on 43d because “the scholarship is already included on line 36 - you don’t want to report it twice” which I really felt was wrong but that’s what two different fafsa employees told me.

It’s “reported twice” because the first time (line 36) it’s part of taxable student income, and the second time (line 43d) it’s subtracted from student income. Taxable scholarships are not considered by FAFSA when computing the FAFSA EFC, and the entry on line 43d is how that money gets removed from the FAFSA EFC calculation.

Is the error message just an advisory thing, or does its appearance prevent you from entering 15,492 on line 43d and then continuing?

It prevented me from moving forward.