@spayurpets we have not done our taxes yet, but our plan for this yr is to not claim our ds as a dependent. We have paid absolutely $0 toward his expenses. The only thing he has from us is health insurance, but we are on a family plan and 7 of our kids are on it. It would cost us the same amt if only 1 child was on it, so I am not sure how we even factor that expense ( and it would be less than50% anyway.) He worked a research project last summer, and earned $5000; he lived there, etc. The only time he was home was a couple weeks before his REU and Christmas break. His income from the research project paid more of his expenses than we did, so even though his scholarship paid for most of it, we didn’t spend anywhere close to $5000.