Your Parents or partner may each qualify to claim you as qualifying relative as long as they provided more than half of your support. The additional information you provided indicate your partner provided the most of the financial support and should be the one claiming you. You do not have to report the allowance you received from parent/partner as income and the remaining $4000 of grant if used for qualified expenses(required books and supplies) is excluded from reportable income. The remainder of the grant you used for personal expenses is not enough income to require you to file taxes. See below IRS requirements for qualifying relatives.
Qualifying relative
- They don't have to be related to you.
- They aren't claimed as a dependent by someone
else.
- They are a U.S. citizen, resident alien,
national, or a Canadian or Mexican resident.
- They aren’t filing a joint return with their
spouse.
- They lived with you the entire year or they
were related to you.
- They made less than $4,050 in 2017.
- You provided more than half of their financial
support.
