So Student loans in a student's name can count as support, but RA tuition reduction and free room and board do not? How can this be? He is literally working a job to qualify for those reductions in Tuition and room and board, so he is effectively being paid. If he worked a job for the same $8500, it would count as support and qualify him as independent. So can he at least lower his costs of support for the tuition to include the reduction he earned as an RA and with the scholarship, as well as his room and board costs for Fall to be $0 since it was paid for?
