What is Verification?
The U.S. Department of Education ‘ED’ may select your file for a process known as ‘verification.’ If you are selected for verification, the Trident financial aid application will prompt you with a request for additional information and/or documentation and ask you to confirm data reported on your Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Verification documentation must be received prior to awarding and disbursing of any aid.
Also, Trident must verify any information it has reason to believe is incorrect on any application. At its discretion, Trident may require a student to verify any FAFSA information and to provide any reasonable documentation in accordance with consistently applied school policies. In either situation Trident may, but is not required to, include any of the 2016–2017 CPS verification items not already included.
Verification documentation may include, but is not limited to, the following:
- Adjusted gross income (AGI)
- U.S. income tax paid
- Education credits
- Untaxed IRA distributions
- Untaxed pensions
- IRA deductions and payments
- Tax-exempt interest
- Other untaxed income
- Income earned from work
- Household size
- Number in college
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
- Program (SNAP) benefits
- Child support paid
- High school completion status
- Identity/statement of educational purpose
