Interesting...put in a NEWLY created test file for an adult 77 Year old ....as a dependent....earning 20,000 wages...and he got the full age 65+ 15,700 std Ded. (But yeah maybe can't be a dependent with 20k income.)
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My other already existing adult test file (age 78), I switched that individual to being a dependent, that shows 12,250 Std Ded (~100k of income though) (again, not really eligible for being a dependent)
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Still, those folks ignoring the dependent question could well be just seeing a change in the Std Dedcution...either rightly or wrongly.
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