Are you confusing losing the child tax credit because he is 17 with not being able to claim him as a dependent? If your son turned 17 at any time in 2016, you do not get the CTC, but you can still claim him as your dependent. As for his part-time job, he can file his own tax return, but must say on it that he can be claimed as a dependent on someone else's return.
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