Documents You Need Before You Start

FASFA is required to make a fair assessment of your need based on available income and support and will provide an immediate response to what amount of aid and alternative funding is available based on your individual profile. This information is all treated with the highest level of confidentially and check and balances are in place to assure fair and equal treatment for all that apply. So don't let pulling together the required information and submitting to FASFA be an obstacle because ultimately you have everything to gain and nothing to lose in attempting to get the financial aid.

A record of income earned in the year prior to when you will start school. A records of your parents´ income information if you are a dependent student. 


For the 2010-2011 school year you will need financial information from 2009

The student requiring aid will need the following:
 
-Your Social Security Number. Be sure it is correct!
-Your driver's license (if any)
-Your 2009 W-2 Forms and other records of money earnedYour (and your spouse´s, if you are married) 2009 Federal Income Tax Return.
■IRS 1040, 1040A, 1040 EZ
■Foreign Tax Return, or
■Tax Return for Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Marshall Islands, the Federal States of Micronesia, or Palau
-Your Parents´ 2009 Federal Income Tax Return (if you are a dependent student)
-Your 2009 untaxed income records

■Veterans noneducation benefit records
■Child support received
■Worker's compensation
-Your current bank statements
-Your current business and investment mortgage information, business and farm records, stock, bond and other investment records
-Your alien registration or permanent resident card (if you are not a U.S. citizen)