If your income is not income earned from working, you will not get child-related credits like earned income credit or the refundable child tax credit. Tax year 2021 was the one year in which you could do that, but the rules have reverted back to the "old" rules---without income from working you cannot get any sort of refund for claiming children on a 2023 return.
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