Verification and reviewing files for conflicting information are two of the core responsibilities of financial aid administrators (FAAs). In this webinar, we will start with the basics: what is verification; what is conflicting information; and what are the important differences between them. With this foundation, we will look at the role the Federal Tax Information (FTI) plays in verification, when we have conflicting information in an ISIR that contains FTI (whether or not an applicant is selected for V1/V5 verification), and how we would resolve tax and FTI related conflicting information when we find it. Next, we will look at the documentation we need to collect to complete verification, including the five unique circumstances defined by Federal Student Aid: rollovers, amended tax returns, when we have a joint tax return but only one person on that return is a FAFSA contributor, tax-related identity theft, and tax filers who have not filed their tax returns by the October 15 automatic extension deadline. Finally, we will look at the challenges faces by foreign FAFSA contributors and what FAAs need to do properly verify a selected application, and identify egregious examples of incorrectly completed income tax data.