@lizzyjbrady I agree with Critter. Who really supported you and your children? It sounds like someone else who worked and supported all of you should be claiming all of you as dependents. If you file for your tiny amount of child-related credit for yourself, though, you deprive the person who supported you of being able to claim any of you and get a better tax benefit.
Child related credits are affected by how much you earn by working. You did not work much. So if you heard that you were going to get $2000 per child for the child tax credit--you heard wrong. It does not work that way at all.
Look at your Form 1040 to see the child-related credits you are getting for the income you entered:
Child Tax Credit line 13a
Credit for Other Dependents line 13a
Earned Income Credit line 18a
Additional Child Tax Credit line 18b
Child and Dependent Care Credit line 18d
PREVIEW 1040
https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1901539-how-do-i-preview-my-turbotax-online-return-before-filing
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