<p>scm:</p>
<p>Doesn’t matter if he’s filing taxes or not. The $5930 is taxable income, so it gets included in Q35 as part of his AGI (FAFSA requires him to calculate as if he were filing taxes, using IRS guidelines and instructions). Then it gets deducted out in Worksheet C.</p>
<p>Works out the same either way, I suppose, unless there’s a 20K or 50K threshold involved for SNT or Auto Zero EFC.</p>