Does it make a difference if the tax-free/taxable financial aid is a pell grant when determining if its student self support? Or are pell grants considered scholarships whether it’s taxable or tax-free? Therefore a tax-free or taxable scholarship/pell grant/off campus scholarship is not considered as her providing her own support?
In addition, I was reading some of your responses to others and I want to make sure I understand correctly. The majority of her total expenses for the year would’ve been covered by scholarship/pell grant. We do provide her a home/food/insurance etc when she’s home from college but what we pay I don’t think equals the amount of scholarship/pell she receives. Yet, we can still claim her as a dependent because the majority of her expenses are paid from taxable and tax-free scholarship/pell grant?
