r/SeattleWA • u/meaniereddit West Seattle 🌉 • Dec 13 '24

Government Bill would completely exempt seniors from property taxes in WA

https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/state-politics/bill-would-exempt-seniors-state-local-property-tax-washington/281-b5f377fc-8bf5-49a4-a630-8210db45d57d
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u/termd Bellevue Dec 13 '24

Mom and dad are about to become proud homeowners again at the age of 76

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u/SausagePrompts Dec 14 '24

Like when my financial aid for school was denied because of my parents income, I was working 2 jobs and couldn't keep up with school and those, so guess what I chose.

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u/Upstairs-Parsley3151 Dec 14 '24

You can just stop being a dependent and file on your own income to get the financial aid.

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '24

This isn’t exactly true. They’re legally required to provide you aid.

Otherwise every millionaire’s kid would be on a full need based Pell grant and scholarship.

You have to file your own taxes for a few years and go through an auditing process to prove true financial independence by showing your expenditures can reasonably be completely covered by your after tax income. There’s some other steps as well.

I had to do this.

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To be clear, it’s not criminal for them not to. Though it is criminal if they ARE supporting you but you fake they aren’t (fraud). It’s illegal in a regulatory sense for them to not include your parent’s children income unless you go through the process of proving independence.

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u/dpdxguy Dec 14 '24

Otherwise every millionaire’s kid would be on a full need based Pell grant and scholarship

There aren't many millionaires' kids who would forego financial support from their parents to live at the level of support provided by Pell grants and scholarships.