topic Should I claim I was a full time student even thought I was not a full time student but I don't wish to get the retirement savings contribution in Retirement tax questions

Should I claim I was a full time student even thought I was not a full time student but I don't wish to get the retirement savings contribution

9d1f94f93a99 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:17:45 GMT

I do not want to get into trouble

Re: Should I claim I was a full time student even thought I was not a full time student but I don...

Vanessa A — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 01:01:29 GMT

If you were not a Full-Time student then, no, you will not say you were a FT student.

Did you make a retirement savings contribution? Unless you made a contribution you would not enter anything in that section.

Re: Should I claim I was a full time student even thought I was not a full time student but I don't wish to get the retirement savings contribution

SteamTrain — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 01:24:19 GMT

@Vanessa A

Check with your collogues.... the software forces the user to take the Retirment Saving Contribution credit if they have any $$ contributed to some retirement account, like a 401k noted on a W-2....sometimes for a pitiful few $$....then they are forced to upgrade to Deluxe...and have to pay more for Fed + State than the RSCC gives them.

We in the Forum, have been telling users to indicate they are a full time student (during the RSCC interview) for many years no...to eliminate that forced upgrade whenever the Credit is lower than the cost of the Software upgrade...like ~$80+in this case.