@SinThirst Yes. Add $1 to the income of one of your parents. Then click submit. It should work.

@kelsmom I totally bow to all your knowledge and all the help you bring to students and parents on this forum. However, in this case you are mistaken. I suppose that theoretically your answer is the correct one. But this is a glitch in the system. I know it because I lived it. When we filled it in they way you described – so that the earned income matched the IRS form exactly – it would not submit. It just saved. We tried it in Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer, and FireFox. No go. We tried it on different computers in the various browsers. Nope. Cleared our cache. Nope.

When we added a dollar to one income, it worked perfectly.

Also note that the first year that we ever applied for FA, a few years ago, we did not use the DRT. The college FA office contacted us to ask if it was a mistake that H and I had the exact same income. After we explained, the college FA office added a dollar to my income. I guess their internal system didn’t like it either.