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Archive for March 29th, 2008

Taxes and FAFSA

Posted by Ted Hopton on March 29, 2008

I haven’t written as frequently in this blog recently. I’m trying to prioritize, and since the deadline to file for financial aid for my daughter’s college is March 31, that’s a top priority. And to file the financial aid forms I have to do my taxes.

So, I’ve been having loads of fun discovering that somehow my withholding wasn’t right again this year and so I owe Uncle Sam big bucks, as well as learning that the formula the FAFSA uses to calculate Expected Family Contribution (EFC) assumes I have lots of money lying around (yet I sure haven’t seen it).

At least she is going to a state school so that helps, but it’s ironic that her total cost per year is Read the rest of this entry »

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