Proving Household Size ?

andloveyelledno
Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:50:01 +0000

Thank you both very much! It seems as though you guys are correct. I think my lack of understanding of numbers and this whole process might’ve made me jump to conclusions in terms of the whole " > 50%" rule. My mother’s AGI is about 34k and some change. Her and I divided it by 3, for me, her, and my sister, and it only came up to about 11k (pretty upset we’re only about 1k short, hah) or so. According to swimcatsmom my mom would have to pay more than 12k in order to show that she supports my sister more than she does herself (if I’m understanding everything correctly). I tried crunching numbers using the Support Test Form on FinAid.org and things weren’t adding up to the +12k swimcatsmom was saying needed to be proven, we kept being just shy of about a thousand or so in order to surpass my sister’s income. Though (hopefully one of you is familiar with the Support Test Form so I don’t sound crazy) I’m not sure what the form meant by “amount used for support” and “amount used for other purposes” for my sister, I wasn’t sure what numbers to put there seeing as how the form says they need to be equal to her income? Maybe I was doing something wrong because of this? I didn’t finish the full form but as we were doing it the “total cost of support for the year” for my sister wasn’t adding up to the 12k so I figured it was useless?

I guess I jumped the gun on this because I figured since my sister does not pay for any household expenses (rent, food, utilities, cable/internet, etc) that somehow this would have been a substantial amount of “support” for my sister to make a case for adding her into my household like I did for last year (then again, my mom claimed her for 2010, unlike for 2011, so). Thank you both for your input! You have been a great help!