That’s good to know. My daughter is not close to 24, but a grad student. So after we had already gone and collected everyone’s financial info and filled it in, we later went back and changed the FAFSA (before submitting it), this time choosing to skip the parent information.
The result was of course, that she suddenly became eligible to financial aid.
IF the parent information is “ignored” anyway for independent students, then one wonders why that option is even offered? Why have a feature that will be disregarded?