< "Here you can answer yes if he did but in the very next screen, you will select he is a full time college student. Checking this box will allow you to claim your child as a dependent even if he made more than $5050 in 2024"
Well it does now. When I created the initial thread 3 weeks ago it did not. You just need to look at that thread. You will see I and many others in that thread (they came along on page 3 so not so long ago) answered these questioned just as you describe and was told our child was "not a dependent this year". Many in that thread simply chose to lie and answer "No" to the $5,050 question just to get around it.
That was the whole point of my post initially as TurboTax had it wrong. After my case was opened, it looks like they fixed it so that in the end it works out as an ODC, as expected. And yes we were all saying full time student etc. We know what the answers should be as we did this last year.
What is not fixed is the odd functionality. Go back and EDIT one of these now deemed "dependents" and you will never see the the question about $5,050 again. Only on the initial run. And the last screen of "Less common situations" questions change as well.
Lastly, the IRS ITA is now asking an gross income question as well as the next to last question. The problem is that there the cutoff is not the $5,050 dollars that it should be for a Qualifying Relative for 2024 taxes, but it is $5,200 which is the point stated will be used next year for 2025 taxes. No this is not TurboTax's problem, but they are in a better position to inform the IRS about it than the rest of us mere fillers
Again here is the link:
https://www.irs.gov/help/ita/does-my-childdependent-qualify-for-the-child-tax-credit-or-the-credit-f...
Next to the last question is now an edit box for gross income. Anything under $5,200 it will tell you (after you answer Yes to the Support test question) and you are told that "xxxx qualifies for the Credit for Other Dependents", BUT if you answer the gross income question with any amount equal to or over $5,200 it will tell you (after you answer Yes to the Support test question) that "xxxx does not qualify for the Credit for Other Dependents" with the reason given as "xxxx did not meet the Qualifying Relative Gross Income Test.
So they seem to be combining now the Qualifying Child and Qualifying Relative tests into a type of merged Qualifying Dependent test with erroneous results.
A qualifying child, a child that meets all the criteria that we all know (age, relation, student, did not pay for more than half of their own support, etc) can earn any amount. Before the fox TurboTax was saying basically no they can't
Now TurboTax still asks the income question (initially - not on an edit) but has fixed the outcome to be right. But now we have the IRS ITA getting it wrong (in the 5200 amount and that it applies to a qualifying child when you answer all the other questions right .
