Application process and making corrections to SNAP
Hello,
Can you tell me why a student cannot make a correction to the SNAP question? We get a lot of students who answer no to this question but later we find out that they did receive this benefit. Only the school can go in and make this correction.
Thank you,
Cortni
thank you for clarifying this issue. We have alot of these.
CORTNI, In some instances an ISIR will not show receipt of SNAP benefits - even though someone in the household did receive those benefits. Because the question was not presented to the student in FAFSA on the Web. This occurs when the question is not pertinent for the student: either he/she is not eligible for an automatic zero EFC or the simplified needs test (the reason for the question about SNAP), or he/she is eligible for one of those alternative EFC calculations by meeting another criterion. In these cases you don't need to correct the SNAP field. However, if correcting the response to the SNAP question to "Yes" makes the student eligible for one of the alternate EFC calculations, you must make the change - and since the student was not presented with the ability to answer, the school must indicate the receipt of SNAP through a correction.
Regards,
David McGuffee
