Have a similar situation. Junior year. TT is giving me some fits. I deleted all and will start over. This year my Q form gross payments will equal the difference between the the T form Tuition total and scholarships; ie we did not have any loans this year nor did we use any cash towards tuition this year. The 529 pais almost everything.
So to qualify for AOC we must show 4K in additional expenses...right? I paid for books, book rentals, lab attire to the tune of $650. Our son commutes about 10 miles each way from home to school. We pay for gas and food, starbucks (ugh!) We paid out of pocket for a summer course he took at a local community college and transfered over. ($450) I figure between the books, that course and the food, that should reasonably put us over the 4K....and get us the AOC. FYI we have book receipts and a receipt for the course...not he food.
It sounds like we should get the $2500 but TT does not seem to think so. Maybe I did something out of order. I'd think I'd entered the T info then the Q info and it did not say I was getting $2500. Where the heck would I enter the additional expenses (food, books, lab attire, course etc.) I have no idea where that goes. OR...do we just enter the T info, skip the Q, hopefuly TT then deems us able to get the $2500 and do we just keep some sort of paper record in our files outlining the expenses that were just aboive 4K.
