My child was required to complete a 6 month unpaid internship to graduate college. Is my child considered a full time student for tax purposes?
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A student is one who attended full time for any part of 5 months during the year. The months do not have to be consecutive. The school decides what is considered full time.
Yes, he still qualifies as your dependent. The co-op (or internship) time is a school-approved program for which academic credit was granted, and counts as full time attendance (since he was full time for the previous academic session).
For more on this subject, see this previous discussion. https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/college-education/discussion/my-20-years-old-son-living-with-me-at...
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