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Are you getting the "Credit for Other Dependents" rather than the "Child Tax Credit"? 

The Child Tax Credit is based on a child that meet these requirements:

• Be under age 17 at the end of the year
• Be your son, daughter, stepchild, eligible foster child, brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister, half-brother, half-sister, or a descendant of one of these (for example, a grandchild, niece or nephew)
• Provide no more than half of their own financial support during the year
• Have lived with you for more than half the year
• Be properly claimed as your dependent on your tax return
• Not file a joint return with their spouse for the tax year or file it only to claim a refund of withheld income tax or estimated tax paid
• Have been a U.S. citizen, U.S. national or U.S. resident alien

If you think you should be getting the Child Tax Credit, but TurboTax is not showing that, try the IRS INTERVIEW to see if you qualify. 

If the IRS interview shows you should be getting that credit, but you don't see it on the return you are preparing in TurboTax, go back through the TurboTax interview for that child and check your responses. Be sure you answer the question regarding whether the child supplies more than half their own support. 

IRS INTERVIEW