MinhT
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Retirement tax questions

You can claim your parent as a dependent if you provided more than half of their support and they had income of less than $4,150 in 2018.

Social security benefits do not count as income, but pension income does. If they had more than $4,150 in pension in 2018, you cannot claim them as dependent.

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