Thoughts on fellowship/stipend

mom2collegekids
Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:24:20 +0000

Is the housing cost for the 12 week internship a double expense? What I mean is…does your son have to rent an apt for 12 months (to live in) and also pay money to stay somewhere for those 12 weeks?

If so, I don’t know if the money for that 12 weeks would be handled differently. I don’t know this, but I’m thinking that it would be kind of like having to pay for your home, and then getting money for a business trip for hotels. We don’t pay taxes on the hotel money for that. But this may fall under something else.

I’m very curious about all of this because my son may face the same thing. He gets a stipend to pay for his 12 month lease…but if he has to travel somewhere for some research and that’s also funded…it doesn’t seem fair that he’d have to pay taxes on that as well.