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<p>Ah…but if someone IS paying money on his behalf…that does need to be reported. </p>
<p>I think it’s mighty hard to prove that you are an independent student with NO income and no means to support yourself. The college needs to just verify the facts. I would be honest with them.</p>
<p>The bottom line is you personally don’t have to “give” the college anything. He just needs to “give” the college the dollar amount of what you are giving him to coverhis food, his transportation, his tuition gaps as you say, his books, his medical, his utilities and such. Those types of things should have been in his FAFSA and that is what they are asking about. It isn’t “you” or the fact that you live with him, it could be a parent, an uncle, a grandparent that is covering his cost of simply living. All students get treated the same and it’s entirely possible it would not change his aid at all unless it pushes him over a limit for Pell or some such thing.</p>