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Student Credit Information
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Survival guide.
Financial Aid Pitfalls
Stay on track! Don't get derailed!
"Top Ten Mistakes"
- Completing the FAFSA as a married student but mailing it
off before your marriage date.
- Completing the FAFSA as a married student but forgetting
to combine your spouse's taxable income with your own.
- Forgetting to carefully complete worksheets A, B and C and
reporting the results on the appropriate line of the FAFSA.
- Forgetting to report earned income credit using worksheet
A.
- Reporting income tax withheld instead of income tax
paid on line 40 and/or line 74 of the FAFSA.
- Leaving questions blank. Remember to fill in all questions
unless instructed otherwise.
- Mailing in FAFSA without proper signatures from student and
parents if applicable.
- Failure to list names and Title IV codes of colleges you
are considering attending.
Note: Eastern Arizona College's Title IV code is 001073.
- Using a W-2 statement instead of a complete tax form to complete
the FAFSA.
AND THE NUMBER MISTAKE IS :
| FAILURE TO READ THE INSTRUCTIONS
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