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Step One (Student):
Male
Female
No
Yes
STATE
High school diploma.
Answer question 20. ...............................................
General Educational Development (GED) certificate or state certificate. Skip to question
21
.
Homeschooled. Skip to question 21. ..........
None of the above. Skip to question 21. . ......
MONTH YEAR
I am separated . . . . . . . . . . .
I am married/remarried
I am single . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I am divorced or widowed
Step One CONTINUES on Page 2
14. What is your
marital status as
of today?
3. Middle
initial
6. State
7. ZIP code
8. Your Bear Number
10. Your telephone number
4. Number and street
(include apt. number)
5. City (and country if
not U.S.)
Your driver’s license number and driver’s license state (if you have one)
12. Driver’s license
state
11. Driver’s license
number
13. Your e-mail address. Please provide your Bear Mail since this is how we will communicate with you.
18. If female, skip to question
19.
Most male students must register with the Selective
Service System to receive federal aid. If you are male, are age 18-25, have you
registered for Selective Service?
16. What is your
state of
residence?
17. Are you male
or female?
15. Month and year you were married,
remarried, separated, divorced or
widowed.
19. What will your high school completion status be when you begin college in the 2020-2021 school year?
1. Last
name
2. First
name
Your full name. If your name has a suffix, such as Jr. or III, include a space between your last name and suffix.
Your permanent mailing address
UNC Application for Aid
July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021
9. Your date
of birth
MONTH YEARDAY
2020-2021
Page 2
Answer questions 25–50 about yourself (the student). If you were never married, or are
separated, divorced or widowed and are not remarried, answer only about yourself. If you are married
or remarried as of today, include information about your spouse.
Step Two (Student):
Step Two CONTINUES on Page 3
Step One CONTINUES from Page 1
4th year undergraduate/senior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1st year college graduate/professional (MBA, MD, PhD, etc.) . . . . . . . . .
5th year/other undergraduate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3rd year undergraduate/junior .....................................
2nd year undergraduate/sophomore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Attended college before and 1st year undergraduate ...............
Never attended college and 1st year undergraduate ................
Continuing graduate/professional or beyond (MBA, MD, PhD, etc.) . .
22. What will your college grade level be when you begin the
2020-2021 school year?
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For questions 29–37, if the answer is zero or the question does not apply to you, enter 0. Report whole dollar amounts with no cents.
29. What was your (and spouse’s) adjusted gross income for 2018? Adjusted gross income is on IRS Form 1040—line 7.
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30. Enter your (and spouse’s) income tax for 2018. Income tax amount is the total of IRS Form 1040—line 13 minus
Schedule 2—line 46. If negative, enter a zero here.
Yes
Don’t know
No
28. Did (or will) you file a Schedule 1 with your 2018 tax return? Answer Noif you did not file a Schedule 1 or
only filed a Schedule 1 to report
an Alaska Permanent Fund dividend, Capital gain, Unemployment
compensation, Educator expenses, IRA deduction, or Student loan interest deduction.
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Questions 31 and 32 ask about earnings (wages, salaries, tips, etc.) in 2018. Answer the questions whether or not a tax return was filed. This
information may be on the W-2 forms or on the tax return selected in question 27: IRS Form 1040—line 1 + Schedule 1—lines 12 + 18 + Schedule K-1 (IRS
Form 1065)—Box 14 (Code A). If any individual earning item is negative, do not include that item in your calculation.
Yes
No
24. If eligible to work in the United States of America, are you interested in being considered for work-study?
Yes No
21. Will you have your first bachelor’s degree
before you begin the 2020-2021 school
year?
20. What is the name of the high school where you received or will receive your high school
diploma? Enter the complete high school name, and the city and state where the high school is located
STATE
High School Name
High School City
IRS 1040 ..........................................
A foreign tax return, IRS 1040NR or
IRS 1040NR-EZ. ...................................
A tax return with Puerto Rico, another U.S. territory,
or Freely Associated State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
25. For 2018, have you (the student) completed
your IRS income tax return or another tax
return listed in question 26?
I have already completed my return .......
I will file but have not yet completed my
return .....................................
I’m not going to file. Skip to question 31.
26. What income tax return did you file or will you file
for 2018?
1
Single ...............................
3
Married—led separate return .......
2
Married—led joint return ...........
27. For 2018, what is or will be your tax filing
status according to your tax return?
6
Don’t know ..........................
5
Qualifying widow(er). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4
Head of household. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2020-2021
31. How much did you earn from working in 2018?
32. How much did your spouse earn from working in 2018?
33. As of today, what is your (and spouse’s) total current balance of cash, savings, and checking accounts?
Don’t include student financial aid.
34. As of today, what is the net worth of your (and spouse’s) investments, including real estate?
Don’t include the home you live in.
35. As of today, what is the net worth of your (and spouse’s) current businesses and/or investment farms?
Don’t include a family farm or family business with 100 or fewer full-time or full-time equivalent employees.
College graduate or professional degree (MBA, MD, PhD, etc.) ..............
Other/undecided .........................................................
Teaching credential (nondegree program) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1st bachelor’s degree .....................................................
2nd bachelor’s degree ....................................................
Associate degree (occupational or technical program) .....................
Certicate or diploma (occupational, technical or education program
of two or more years) .....................................................
Certicate or diploma (occupational, technical or education program
of less than two years). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Associate degree (general education or transfer program). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
24. What college degree or certificate will you be working on when you
begin the 2020-2021 school year?
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Step Three (Student):
NoYes
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Step Two CONTINUES from Page 2
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No
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No
Yes
Answer the questions in this step to determine if you will need to provide parental information. Once
you answer “Yes” to any of the questions in this step, skip Step Four and go to Step Five on page 6.
a. Payments to tax-deferred pension and retirement savings plans (paid directly or withheld from earnings), including, but not limited to,
amounts reported
on the
W-2
forms in Boxes 12a
through
12d, codes D, E, F, G, H and S. Don’t include amounts reported in code DD
(employer contributions toward employee health benets).
b. IRA deductions and payments to self-employed SEP, SIMPLE, Keogh and other qualied plans from IRS Form 1040 Schedule 1—total
of lines 28 + 32.
c. Child support received for any of your children. Don’t include foster care or adoption payments.
d.
Tax
exempt interest income from IRS
Form 1040—line 2a.
e. Untaxed portions of IRA distributions and pensions from IRS Form 1040—line 4a minus line 4b. Exclude rollovers. If negative, enter
a zero here.
f. Housing, food and other living allowances paid to members of the military, clergy and others (including cash payments and cash value
of benets). Don’t include the value of on-base military housing or the value of a basic military allowance for housing.
g. Veterans noneducation benets, such as Disability, Death Pension, or Dependency & Indemnity Compensation (DIC) and/or VA
Educational Work-Study allowances.
h.
i.
Other untaxed income not reported in items 37a through 37g, such as workers’ compensation, disability benefits, untaxed
foreign income, etc. Also include the untaxed portions of health savings accounts from IRS Form 1040 Schedule 1—line 25. Don’t
include extended foster care benefits, student aid, earned income credit, additional child tax credit, welfare payments, untaxed
Social Security benefits, Supplemental Security Income, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act educational benefits, on-base
military housing or a military housing allowance, combat pay, benefits from flexible spending arrangements (e .g., cafeteria plans),
foreign in come exclusion or credit for federal tax on special fuels.
Money received, or paid on your behalf (e.g., bills), not reported elsewhere on this form. This includes money that you received from a
parent or other person whose financial information is not reported on this form and that is not part of a legal child support agreement.
38. Were you born before January 1, 1997? ................................................................................
39. As of today, are you married? (Also answer “Yes” if you are separated but not divorced.) .................................
40. At the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year, will you be working on a master’s or doctorate program (such as an MA,
MBA, MD, JD, PhD, EdD, graduate certicate, etc.)?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
41. Are you currently serving on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces for purposes other than training? .......................
42. Are you a veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces? . ...........................................................................
43. Do you now have or will you have children who will receive more than half of their support from you between July 1, 2020
and June 30, 2021?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
44. Do you have dependents (other than your children or spouse) who live with you and who receive more than half of their
support from you, now and through June 30, 2021? ....................................................................
45. At any time since you turned age 13, were both your parents deceased, were you in foster care or were you a dependent
or ward of the court? ..................................................................................................
46. As determined by a court in your state of legal residence, are you or were you an emancipated minor? ........................
47. Does someone other than your parent or stepparent have legal guardianship of you, as determined by
a court in your
state of legal residence? ..................................................................................
48. At any time on or after July 1, 2019, did your high school or school district homeless liaison determine that you were an
unaccompanied youth who was homeless or were self-supporting and at risk of being homeless? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
49. At any time on or after July 1, 2019, 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 or were self-supporting and at risk of being homeless? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
50. At any time on or after July 1, 2019, 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? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
37. Student’s 2018 Untaxed Income (Enter the combined amounts for you and your spouse.)
36. Student’s 2018 Additional Financial Information (Enter the combined amounts for you and your spouse.)
a. Education credits (American Opportunity Tax Credit and Lifetime Learning Tax Credit) from IRS Form 1040 Schedule 3—line 50.
b. Child support paid because of divorce or separation or as a result of a legal requirement. Don’t include support for children in your
household, as reported in question 84.
c. Taxable earnings from need-based employment programs, such as Federal Work-Study and need-based employment portions of
fellowships and assistantships.
d. Taxable college grant and scholarship aid reported to the IRS as income. Includes AmeriCorps benefits (awards, living allowances and
interest accrual payments), as well as grant and scholarship portions of fellowships and assistantships.
e. Combat pay or special combat pay. Only enter the amount that was taxable and included in your adjusted gross income. Don’t include
untaxed combat pay.
f. Earnings from work under a cooperative education program offered by a college.
Form CONTINUES on Page 4
2020-2021
Page 4
Step Four (Parent):
Complete this step if you (the stude
nt) answered “No” to all questions in Step Three.
Answer all the questions in Step Four even if you do not live with your legal parents (biological, adoptive, or as determined by the state [for example, if the parent is listed
on the birth certicate]). Grandparents, foster parents, legal guardians, widowed stepparents, aunts, uncles, and siblings are not considered parents on this form unless they
have legally adopted you. If your legal parents are married to each other, or are not married to each other and live together, answer the questions about both of them. If
your parent was never married or is remarried, divorced, separated or widowed, see StudentAid.gov/fafsa-parent .
61. Your parents’ e-mail address:
63. How many people are in your parents’ household?
Include:
yourself, even if you don’t live with your parents,
your parents,
your parents’ other children (even if they do not live with your parents) if (a) your parents will provide more than half of their support
between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021, or
(b) the children could answer “No” to every question in Step Three on page 5 of this form, and
other people if they now live with your parents, your parents provide more than half of their support and your parents will continue to
provide more than half of their support between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021.
64. How many people in your parents’ household (from question 63) will be college students between July 1, 2020 and June 30,
2021?Always count yourself as a college student. Do not include your parents. Do not include siblings who are in U.S. military service academies.
You may include others only if they will attend, at least half-time in 2020-2021, a program that leads to a college degree or certificate.
At any time during 2018 or 2019, did you, your parents, or anyone in your parents’ household (from question 63) receive benefits from any of the federal programs listed?
Mark all that apply. Answering these questions will NOT reduce eligibility for student aid or these programs. TANF has different names in many states. Call 1-800-433-3243 to
find out the name of your state’s program. If you, your parents, or anyone in your household receives any of these benefits after filing this application form but before
December 31, 2019, you must update your response by contacting the Office of Financial Aid at University of Northern Colorado.
65. Medicaid or
Supplemental
Security Income (SSI)
66. Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP)
67. Free or Reduced
Price School
Lunch
68. Temporary Assistance
for Needy Families
(TANF)
69. Special Supplemental Nutrition
Program for Women, Infants,
and Children (WIC)
62. What is your
parents’ state
of residence?
STATE
73. Did (or will) your parents file a Schedule 1 with their 2018 tax return?
Answer “Noif they did not file a Schedule 1 or only filed a Schedule 1 to
report an Alaska Permanent Fund Capital gain, Unemployment compensation,
Educator expenses, IRA deduction, or Student loan interest deduction.
74. As of today, is either of
your parents a dislocated
worker?
No
Yes
Don’t know
No
Yes
Don’t know
Step Four CONTINUES on Page 5
72. For 2018, what is or will be your parents’ tax
ling status according to their tax return?
51. As of today, what is the marital status of your parents? 52. Month and year
they were married,
remarried, separated,
divorced or widowed.
Divorced or separated
...............
Married or remarried
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Never married
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
MONTH YEAR
Widowed
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
If
you (the
student) answered
“No”
to every
question
in Step
Three,
go
to Step
Four.
If
you answered
“Yes”
to any
question
in Step
Three, skip Step
Four
and
go
to Step
Five on page
6
.
What are the Social Security Numbers (SSN), or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN), names and dates of birth of the parents reporting
information on this form?
If the name includes a suffix, such as Jr. or III, include a space between the last name and suffix. Enter two digits for each day and month (e.g., for May 31, enter 05 31).
53. SSN or ITIN - If you do not have either, please enter all zeros 54. LAST NAME, AND
55. FIRST INITIAL 56. DATE OF BIRTH
57. SSN or ITIN - If you do not have either, please enter all zeros. 58. LAST NAME, AND
59. FIRST INITIAL 60. DATE OF BIRTH
,
,
Questions 53-56 are for Parent 1 (father/mother/stepparent)
Questions 57-60 are for Parent 2 (father/mother/stepparent)
Unmarried and both legal parents living
together.
............................
Single ..............................
Married—led separate return ......
Married—led joint return ..........
Don’t know .........................
Qualifying widow(er). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Head of household. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
71. What income tax return did your parents
le or will t hey le for 2018?
IRS 1040 ...................................
A foreign tax return, IRS 1040NR or IRS
1040NR-EZ.
. ..............................
A tax return with Puerto Rico, another U.S.
territory or Freely Associated State.. .......
70. For 2018, have your parents completed their IRS
income tax return or another tax return listed in
question 71?
My
parents will le but have not yet completed
their
return .....................................
My
parents are not going to le.
Skip to
question
77. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
My
parents have already completed their return.
2020-2021
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Questions 77 and 78 ask about earnings (wages, salaries, tips, etc.) in 2018. Answer the questions whether or not a tax return was filed. This information may be on the W-2
forms or on the tax return selected in question 80: IRS Form 1040—line 1 + Schedule 1lines 12 + 18 + Schedule K-1 (IRS Form 1065)Box 14 (Code A). If any
individual earning item is negative, do not include that item in your calculation. Report the information for the parent listed in questions 53-56 in question 77 and the
information for the parent listed in questions 57-60 in question 78.
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Step Four CONTINUES from Page 4
For questions 75-83, if the answer is zero or the question does not apply, enter 0. Report whole dollar amounts with no cents.
75. What was your parents’ adjusted gross income for 2018? Adjusted gross income is on IRS Form 1040—line 7. $
76. Enter your parents’ income tax for 2018. Income tax amount is the total of IRS Form 1040—line 13 minus
Schedule 2—line 46. If negative, enter a zero here.
h.
Other untaxed income not reported in items 83a thr
ough 83g, such as workers’ compensation, disability benefits, untaxed foreign
income, etc. Also include the untaxed portions of health savings accounts from IRS Form 1040 Schedule 1—line 25. Don’t include
extended foster care benets, student aid, earned income credit, additional child tax credit, welfare payments, untaxed Social
Security benets, Supplemental Security Income, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act educational benets, on-base military
housing or a military housing allowance, combat pay, benets from exible spending arrangements (e.g., cafeteria plans), foreign
income exclusion or credit for federal tax on special fuels.
77. How much did Parent 1 (father/mother/stepparent) earn from working in 2018?
78. How much did Parent 2 (father/mother/stepparent) earn from working in 2018?
79. As of today, what is your parents’ total current balance of cash, savings, and checking accounts?
Don’t include student
financial aid.
80. As of today, what is the net worth of your parents’ investments, including real estate?
Don’t include the home in which your parents live.
81. As of today, what is the net worth of your parents’ current businesses and/or investment farms?
Don’t include a family farm or family business with 100 or fewer full-time or full-time equivalent employees.
82. Parents’ 2018 Additional Financial Information (Enter the
amounts
for your
parent[s].)
a. Education credits (American Opportunity Tax Credit and Lifetime Learning Tax Credit) from IRS Form 1040 Schedule 3—line 50.
b. Child support paid because of divorce or separation or as a result of a legal requirement. Don’t include support for children in your
parents’ household, as reported in question 63.
c. Your parents’ taxable earnings from need-based employment programs, such as Federal Work-Study and need-based employment
portions of fellowships and assistantships.
d. Your parents’ taxable college grant and scholarship aid reported to the IRS as income. Includes AmeriCorps benefits (awards, living
allowances and interest accrual payments), as well as grant and scholarship portions of fellowships and assistantships.
e. Combat pay or special combat pay. Only enter the amount that was taxable and included in your parents’ adjusted gross income.
Don’t include untaxed combat pay.
f. Earnings from work under a cooperative education program offered by a college.
83. Parents’ 2018 Untaxed Income (Enter the
amounts
for your
parent[s].)
a. Payments to tax-deferred pension and retirement savings plans (paid directly or withheld from earnings), including, but not
limited to, amounts reported on the W-2 forms in Boxes 12a through 12d, codes D, E, F, G, H and S. Don’t include amounts
reported in code DD (employer contributions toward employee health benefits).
b. IRA deductions and payments to self-employed SEP, SIMPLE, Keogh and other qualified plans from IRS Form 1040 Schedule 1—
total of lines 28 + 32.
c. Child support received for any of your parents’ children. Don’t include foster care or adoption payments.
d. Tax exempt interest income from IRS Form 1040—line 2a.
e. Untaxed portions of IRA distributions and pensions from IRS Form 1040—line 4a minus line 4b. Exclude rollovers. If negative,
enter a zero here.
f. Housing, food and other living allowances paid to members of the military, clergy and others (including cash payments and
cash value of benefits). Don’t include the value of on-base military housing or the value of a basic military allowance for housing.
g. Veterans noneducation benefits, such as Disability, Death Pension, or Dependency & Indemnity
Compensation (DIC) and/or
VA Educational Work-Study allowances.
Form CONTINUES on Page 6
2020-2021
Page 6
Step Five (Student):
Complete this step only if you (the student) answered “Yes” to any questions in Step Three.
Step Seven (Student and Parent):
Read, sign, and date
NoYes Don’t know
84. How many people are in your household?
Include:
yourself (and your spouse),
your children, if you will provide more than half of their support between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021, even if they do not live with you, and
other people if they now live with you, you provide more than half of their support and you will continue to provide more than half of their
support between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021.
85. How many people in your (and your spouse’s) household (from question 85) will be college students between July 1, 2020 and
June 30, 2021? Always count yourself as a college student. Do not include family members who are in U.S. military service academies. Include
others only if they will attend, at least half-time in 2020-2021, a program that leads to a college degree or certificate.
At any time during 2018 or 2019, did you (or your spouse) or anyone in your household (from question 85) receive benefits from any of the federal programs listed?
Mark all that apply. Answering these questions will NOT reduce eligibility for student aid or these programs. TANF has different names in many states. Call 1-800-433-3243
to find out the name of your state’s program.
If you (or your spouse) or anyone in your household receives any of these benefits after filing this application form but
before December 31, 2019, you must update your response by contacting the Office of Financial Aid at University of Northern Colorado.
91. As of today, are you (or your spouse) a dislocated worker?
2021
MONTH DAY
93. Date this form was completed
94. Student (Sign below)
95. Parent (A parent from Step Four sign below.)
If you are the student, by signing this application you certify that you will use
federal, state, and/or institutional student financial aid only to pay the cost of
attending an institution of higher education.
By signing this application, you the student and the parent, certify
that all of the information provided is true and complete
to the best of
your knowledge, and you agree, if asked, to provide follow up
documentation that will support the accuracy of your completed form.
This information may include a tax return transcript that you filed or may
be required to file, among other documents.
Knowingly providing false or misleading information is subject to having
to repay any financial aid funds received and/or disciplinary actions.
2020
2019
86. Medicaid or
Supplemental
Security Income (SSI)
87. Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP)
88. Free or Reduced
Price School
Lunch
89. Temporary Assistance
for Needy Families
(TANF)
90. Special Supplemental Nutrition
Program for Women, Infants,
and Children (WIC)
2020-2021
92. As of today, what are your housing plans?
On campus
Off campus
With parent(s)
Step Six (Student):