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专业判决上诉

特殊情况上诉

The 金融援助 Office recognizes that students and their families 五月 experience special circumstances that 五月 affect their ability to contribute to the student’s educational costs. The 特殊情况上诉 is a formal request students can make to have their financial aid package reevaluated due to a significant change in their family’s financial situation.

情况下 五月 包括失业, 工作时间或工资大幅减少, 医疗费用, 婚姻状况的变化, or other unexpected circumstances that the student would like reviewed.

Please speak with your 金融援助 Specialist for more information.

特殊情况上诉

在某些情况下, students are unable to provide their FAFSA contributors (parents’ or guardians’) information on the FAFSA.  To be considered an unusual circumstance, the circumstance 不能 be due to any of the conditions below either individually or in combination:

  • Refusal from the contributor to provide support for the student’s education.
  • Contributor’s unwillingness to provide information on the FAFSA or for verification.
  • 投稿人没有声称该学生是受抚养人.
  • 投稿人没有声称该学生是受抚养人 for income-tax purposes.
  • The student demonstrates self-sufficiency or living independently.

*Students whose contributors refuse to provide FAFSA or verification information and do 不 support the student 五月 complete a Parental Waiver to determine eligibility for unsubsidized 联邦直接贷款 only.

Students who would like to request a dependency override to change their dependency status from dependent (requiring contributor information) to independent can do so by completing the 特殊情况上诉 form.  的情况下, 五月 允许依赖重载包括:

  • Custodial contributor is deceased and student has no contact with living contributor, 如果适用的话.
  • Custodial contributor is incarcerated and student has no contact with living contributor, 如果适用的话.
  • Unusual contributor circumstances such as abuse, unknown whereabouts, abandonment, etc.

Please speak with your 金融援助 Specialist for more information.

*Both Special and Unusual Circumstance appeals are overseen through a review process using professional judgment by the Office of 金融援助.  All requests are considered using best professional practice; requests do 不 guarantee approval.  All financial aid regulations are subject to change through legislation or policy change by the U.S. 教育部.

无人陪伴的流浪青年

An unaccompanied homeless youth is a student who is under the age of 24 and is homeless or self-supporting and at-risk of becoming homeless.  Students 五月 be considered an unaccompanied homeless youth if they can answer ‘yes’ to at least one of the three questions listed on the FAFSA as detailed below:

  1. “在7月1日当天或之后的任何时间, 2022, did your high school or school district homeless liaison determine that you were an unaccompanied youth who was homeless?”
  2. “在7月1日当天或之后的任何时间, 2022, did the director of an emergency shelter or transitional housing program funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development determine that you were an unaccompanied youth who was homeless?”
  3. “在7月1日当天或之后的任何时间, 2022, did the director of a runaway or homeless youth basic center or transitional living program determine that you were an unaccompanied youth who was homeless or were self-supporting and at risk of being homeless?”

学生是 不 able to answer ‘yes’ to any of the questions listed above can meet with their 金融援助 Specialist to determine if a homeless youth dependency override is possible.