Financial Aid

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The calculations used to determine a student's eligibility for student financial assistance generally take into account the family's income from the previous tax year.

Eligibility Adjustment

For the dislocated worker's family, or in the case of a death or divorce in the family, the income from a previous year is often much higher than the income expected in the current year. Families sometimes must adjust to other unexpected household and income changes, too.

The good news is that financial aid administrators have authority under the law to exercise "professional judgment ”to adjust these data items to account for families with special circumstances.

This authority must be used carefully, and any adjustment of data requires a documented case-by-case review of the family's entire financial situation. However, reduction of income, loss of a job or a change in the number of family members can often be considered a special circumstance that warrants the use of professional judgment to increase a student's eligibility for financial assistance.

If the information you provided on the FAFSA does not reflect your current circumstances, and you would like us to consider revising your expected family contribution for the current year, please let us know by completing and submitting the Income Adjustment Form.

Attention dependent students!

For dependent students, we can only consider parental income changes.

What You Must Provide

Please submit a letter of explanation with your Income Adjustment Form. Tell us what has happened to change your circumstances.

If you are petitioning for the current academic year and it is after January 1, please include a signed copy of your tax return; if it is not yet January 1, you may need to project tax information to the best of your ability. Then, if your petition is approved, we will request that you provide us with a signed copy of your tax return during the Winter term.

Please note that we can only consider the taxes from the year that succeeds the one provided already on your FAFSA. For example, if you filed a FAFSA for the 2008-09 academic year, you provided information from your 2007 tax returns. In the process of reviewing your 2008-09 Income Adjustment Petition, you must provide us with your 2008 tax information.

If you have questions about this process, please contact us for more information.

Timing

If you are petitioning for the coming academic year, please wait until July 1 to submit your petition. We will ask you to project your income for the current year and we feel that your projection will be more accurate if you can see what has happened during the first six months of that year.

Special Information for Students with Approved Dependency Overrides

If you have petitioned and been approved for independent status, the Income Adjustment Petition will not be approved.

Essential Determiners

What is your class standing?

What is your enrollment status?

Are you a resident of Washington?

Related Links

FAFSA on the Web

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Loan Exit Counseling

Sign Your MPN Online

Track Your Loan Status

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Office of Financial Aid
Location: Library 1233
Hours:
MTuThF 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
W 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Phone:(360) 867-6205
Fax: (360) 867-6576
Email: Financial Aid

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Last Updated: Monday September 14 2009

The Evergreen State College

2700 Evergreen Parkway NW

Olympia, Washington 98505

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