Financial aid with a special needs dependent sibling

MAmomto4
Sun, 14 Jan 2024 20:52:37 +0000

We are. We have a son with profound autism who will require lifelong care and a son with quadriplegic cerebral palsy who will also need lifelong care.

We did present the case, backed by documentation from a special needs attorney & a special needs financial planner, to schools my S23 got into that had too high costs. They each gave him an additional $2K per year, but I think that was primarily because we had done a (necessary for wheelchair accessibility) renovation since we submitted the original financial aid documentation and the equity in our house was lower.

If we were more on top of things we would have put the money set aside already for their care into some kind of inaccessible trust. But we still don’t know what would be best long term so it is just sitting in “regular” savings/investments and the schools seemed to have fully considered it even though we (with documentation) explained it wasn’t accessible.