Publication 17
taxmap/pub17/p17-179.htm#en_us_publink1000236001If, after you file your 2010 tax return, you or someone else
receives tax-free educational assistance for, or a refund of, an expense you
used to figure an education credit on that return, you may have to repay all or
part of the credit. You must refigure your education credit(s) for 2010 as if
the assistance or refund was received in 2010. Subtract the amount of the
refigured credit from the amount of the credit you claimed. The result is the
amount you must repay. Add the repayment (recapture) to your tax liability for
the year in which you receive the assistance or refund. See the instructions for
your tax return for that year to find out how to report the recapture amount.
Your original 2010 tax return does not change.