TomK2023
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Deductions & credits

Yes, based on the information that you supplied and according to IRS guidelines (and Official Peace Corps tax guides), your daughter’s service in the Peace Corps is considered as a "temporary absence", so you can claim her as a dependent for 2025.

 

Your daughter is considered to have lived with you for the entire year (school and Peace Corp ), if her absence is for "special circumstances." (it is "... reasonable to assume that the absent person will return to the home after the temporary absence").

 

IRS Pub.501 -- Dependents, Standard Deduction, and Filing Information (pgs. 9, 13)

 

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