How Does FA-DDX Work If a Contributor Filed a U.S. Tax Return and a Foreign Tax Return?

Beginning with the 2024-25 award year, federal tax information (FTI) is transferred from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to the FAFSA via the FUTURE Act Direct Data Exchange (FA-DDX) and will appear in the FTI Module (FTI-M) sections on the Institutional Student Information Record (ISIR) for the student, spouse, or parent contributor(s) respectively.  Under the FUTURE Act, Foreign Earned Income Exclusion is not included in federal tax information (FTI) that may be retrieved using the FA-DDX, so it must be manually reported on the FAFSA even if all other FTI was transferred from the IRS and is unchanged.

See the AskRegs Knowledgebase Q&As:

• Do We Only Verify the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion If an Amount Is Reported On the FAFSA?
• Why Isn't the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion Transferred Into the FAFSA Using the FA-DDX?
• What Must a School Do When a Contributor Reports a Foreign Earned Income Exclusion?