Hi There,
My son is in graduate school and is a full time student, and has accepted FAFSA loans for cost of attendance and living allowance. He is still covered under our medical insurance and we provide supplemental monies to support him, including car and meals, etc.
Does he still qualify as a dependent.
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Hi, Cindytax,
You don't quite give us enough information to answer, so let me give you some more information about dependents, and see if you have enough to figure it out from there.
Dependents include Qualifying Children QC and "Qualifying Relatives" in IRS vernacular (even though they don't have to actually be related). There is no income limit for a QC but there is an age limit, a relationship test and residence test.
For both types of dependents, you'll need to answer the following questions to determine if you can claim them.
Once you have met those tests, you can move on to the next tests, which are excerpted from this article:
Qualifying child
In addition to the qualifications above, to claim a qualifying child, you must be able to answer "yes" to all of the following questions.
Note, for the support test, if the loan is in his name, it may impact the support question. This worksheet is designed to help you make that determination and you can learn more here.
Hope this helps.
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Karen
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