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I am a u.s. citizen by birth, but my parents are both non-us citizens and we have lived in Japan for the last 10 years. I checked a million times, I am eligible for fin aid. My mom was a dislocated homemaker but she sort of had some income by buying and selling random things on the internet, but it was untaxed income, and not very much, our father was the "bread winner" but then they had a divorce, and then the earthquake came, and we decided to move, and then my grandmother passed away, leaving us with a bit of inheritance that is now mostly gone and only about $400 of it remains.
The inheritance helped us pay for the move to another prefecture, for household bills, sibling's school tuition, a bit of debt we had....
So......reading the replies (much appreciated)...it seems as though...
since the *inheritance* is mostly used up and she has no guidelines of the IRS since we don't file u.s. taxes or well any taxes at all, I won't include it in the income and put the remains of the inheritance in the assets part of my mother's fafsa.
Is that okay? If any can think of any conflicts that may arise or finds a statement saying that inheritance (even if mostly gone) is definitely included as "income" please tell!
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