Your dependents are shown on your tax return. The one on the top line of dependents is 1. Next one is 2, and so on. Or-----as I mentioned ----do you have any teenagers or students who filed a tax return of their own? Do you have a child who had any sort of job? ASK them if they filed a tax return and then find out if they made the VERY common error of saying no one can claim them as a dependent.
Your other remedy for this is to simply file your tax return by mail and have the IRS sort out the duplicate use of the SSN.
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