SS income becomes taxable when half the SS income plus all other taxable income exceeds $25,000 for a single person. Since no child receives more then $50,000 of SS it could never be taxable if that is the only income.
See IRS Pub 915 page 3,
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p915.pdf
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