The scholarship is ignored as the students allocation to their support. The only year my son provided half his support off of earned income, he earned over $32k working and used it all to pay for college.... it is a difficult threshold to reach. The student has to have current year EARNED INCOME to qualify to claim themself.
@dosmom1234 your son earned only $8k in earned income, he did not pay over half his own support from earned income. He is your dependent and you probably claim him. He is most likely subject to 8615 as scholarshipscan be both earned and unearned within the tax law, very strange. Go through the explainations in the instructions, there are worksheets. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i8615.pdf">https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i8615.pdf</a>
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