FAFSA and claiming independence?

Well Since you are a guy you have to be 25 to claim independence even if you are working and living on your own and you also have to fill out a form with selective services…..go 2 www.fasa.com and it will explain everything

I am 19 claiming independent, but thats because I am married. I believe you can even if you are not married as long as your parents dont claim you on your taxes, I looked into it for my cousin. You can either call the FAFSA number or talk to a financial aid rep. to be 100% sure. The distance wont matter, and neither about you working and live on your own. I think the main reason is because they dont want you and your parents to file for the same thing and get money back for it.

Yes you do.

You can only be an independent student if your parents no longer claim you on their taxes, if you have a child of your own, are a military vet, or if you’ve severed ties legally to your parents.

So until you do one of those things, or turn 24, you’ll be considered a non-independent student and will continue needing to use your parents income info.

YES, and I think that is about the duymbest rule in the whole entire world. Unless you are 25, married, have a kid, are in the military, or are a legal ward of the court, you have to include your parents’ income. I was legally emancipated (read: completely cut off from my parents by a court of law) at 18 and still had to put my mom’s income on the FAFSA sheet. SOOOOOOOOOOOO stupid.

If they still claim you, yes you have to put in your parents information. I actually claimed independence from my parents at the age of 20 but you would have to get legal documents stating that your parents do not support you anymore. You need to ask your financial aid office on how to go about in claiming indepence from your parents. They were the ones who guided me.

You will have to until you are twenty three or four (double check that on FAFSA page) or fight a very costly and usually not effective legal battle to get yourself declared independent due to extreme circumstances or have special circumstances that you could persuade your financial officer with–aka, from what you’ve said, it’s not going to happen. You use the internet–get them to email you the scanned info.

No, you have to pay for your own insurance for one year be a least 23 years old, parents can not claim you on their taxes. Unless you are married or in the service you can claim yourself as independent.