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Pinga said:
Student tuition?
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One doesn't need to be considered a dependent for that. Also, the transferable amount is limited. I suppose if one was making enough that they could actually use enough of the deductions where it got the amount below the transferable amount that would make a difference.
I've worked both full and part time hours as a student and the only time where something like that occurred was when scholarships were taxable, my employment never made that much of a dent. I have thousands of tuition credits now that are unusable unless I have an income, and I was transferring credits.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
The thing is, I am sure he perceives this discussion as a sign that I start treating him as a boarder rather than a son. He did stay surprisingly calm most of the time. Overall, it wasn't a bad conversation.
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I would shift the language to now being treated as an adult, not a child - still your son regardless :-)
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
@Tabitha,
he is already working at the same place he will be apprentice, they just don't have a Red Seal technician yet, so that he can become apprentice.
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my son got a bit of this 'delaying' tactic before he began his apprenticeship - lots of promises, but the employer didn't deliver. My kid finally figured out it wasn't going to happen there & followed up contacts he had made on the jobs he was doing & got hired on elsewhere where there were enough journeymen to easily take him on.
 
Carolla said:
my son got a bit of this 'delaying' tactic before he began his apprenticeship - lots of promises, but the employer didn't deliver. My kid finally figured out it wasn't going to happen there & followed up contacts he had made on the jobs he was doing & got hired on elsewhere where there were enough journeymen to easily take him on.
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I was afraid that's the case, but the actually have been advertising for two positions and one is supposed to come. They just paid him a bunch of work clothes with his name and Volkswagen embroidered on it. He likes it there. i think he will figure it out eventually if it wasn't happening.
 
My son was promised an apprenticeship. Papers were filled out. They became stale dated on owner/mangers desk. He got a new position elsewhere.
First place tried to get him back but it was too late.
 
ChemGal said:
I thought someone had to be under the age of 18 or have a significant disability to claim them as a dependent? What does his earnings have to do with it?
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It was a long time ago - I don't remember the details. He was only 17 when hee graduated from high school, and by then he, by his own choice, was picking up a lot of shifts at McDonalds. So it may have been that year when he finished school and started university. I still remember my surprise when doing the family tax returns, to realize that I couldn't claim him as a dependent. I think it was then that I first raised the subject of him paying something towards his living expenses.
 
Tabitha said:
My son was promised an apprenticeship. Papers were filled out. They became stale dated on owner/mangers desk. He got a new position elsewhere.
First place tried to get him back but it was too late.
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Just got news his apprenticeship is going to start first week of December and papers are filled out. One more sep to independence.He just realized that he will need money for christmas shopping and he spend half his monthly income on the truck.
 
Good news Mrs. Anteater. Christmas will come-he may have to get by with giving small presents. That is ok. It is a learning process.
 
Good news re the apprenticeship! There's a line I've found handy over the years when these problem realization present themselves - "oh my, that is a problem. You're smart & resourceful, I'm sure you'll find a way to work it out." It helps to remind ME and the kids that these issues are theirs to work out and they've got the skills to figure it out & learn something by so doing. Also stops me from lecturing about what they "should" have done or realized.
 
Some do. I had a tendency to act as if two small, under-knowledged adults had arrived to live with me, and it was my job to show them how to make up their knowledge gap.
 
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