Hello,
@DianeW777 when you said it may affect my education tax credits, my 1098-T did not have anything on it reflecting the HEERF payment and my school as well as the IRS said it is not taxable. When filling out my education information, I put exactly what was on my 1098-T and only purchased 1 book so put the $40 amount for an expense. So do I not put this $1200 payment from the grant anywhere? I got the lifetime learning credit for the amount I paid out of pocket for school, obviously TurboTax took out my scholarship amount which was on my 1098 and gave me 20% of the amount I paid.
so I should not have to put the HEERF payment anywhere on my return as it asks no questions about it? I did put I got 0 for both stimulus amounts and I’m also eligible to claim myself for 2020 as I was only a part-time student and NOT full-time, and I’m 22 years old so my parents were not able to claim me due to being part-time.
