just a note, if you had any student loans or 1099Q payments in 2017, they would count as eduction expenses paid in 2017. We are under same issue, our school started requiring payment in December an prior year it wasn't till January, doubling the education costs for 1 year. We were saved as the stafford loan wasn't paid till 2017 and were able to claim that payment.
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