My brother is applying for financial aid for a technical school and one of the boxes asks for the current balance of my parents various savings accounts - if he put down their info he will most likely not get any aid but he doesn't really benefit from living with them in a financial way except for no rent, he was claimed on my parents taxes though. If he was to move out he'd be considered poverty and would almost certainly get great aid but we would like to avoid that if we can for the duration of school. Do we have any other options or are we misunderstanding this somehow?