I didn’t receive my tax credit for my child why

[DoninGA]

No one can see your tax return.

Did you enter the child as your dependent child?  Is the child under the age of 17?  Did you indicate the child lived with you for the whole year?  Did you indicate the child did NOT provide over one-half of their own support?  Did you indicate that there were no other adults living in the home who provided support to the child?  Did you enter the child's Social Security number and did NOT check box for not being valid for employment?

[xmasbaby0]

The tax laws changed for child-related credits and are much less generous for 2022.

Make sure you have entered your child as a dependent in My Info, and that you have entered the child's Social Security number.    Careful— do not say that your child’s SSN is not valid for employment.  If your child was born in 2022 make sure you said he lived with you the whole year.  There is an oddly worded question that asks if the child paid over half their own support.  Say NO to that question.

Have you entered income from working in 2022?  If not,  you will not receive an income tax refund based on having dependent children.

The rules for getting the child tax credit on a 2021 tax return and now on a 2022 return are very different.  For 2021 you could get $3600 for a child under 6 or $3000 for a child between 6 and 17 even if you had no income/did not work.   That is NOT the way it will work for your 2022 tax return.  The “old” rules are back. 

  The maximum amount of the child tax credit is now $2000 per child; the refundable “additional child tax credit” amount is $1500.   In order to get that credit, you have to have income from working.  The credit is calculated based on the amount you earned above $2500 multiplied by 15%, up to the full $1500 per child. 

 If your child is older than 16 at the end of 2022, you do not get the CTC.  But you may still get the non-refundable $500 credit for other dependents instead.

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1900923-what-is-the-child-tax-credit

https://www.irs.gov/help/ita/does-my-childdependent-qualify-for-the-child-tax-credit-or-the-credit-f...

And for the Earned Income Credit—-the rules are back to the “old” rules—

Those under 25 and over 65 without children are not eligible as they were uniquely in 2021.   And you cannot use your income from any earlier tax year to get the EIC for a 2022 return.  There is no “lookback” for 2022.  EIC for 2022 will be based on the income you earned by working in 2022.

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1899157-what-are-the-qualifications-for-the-earned-income-credit-e...

https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/individuals/earned-income-tax-credit/use-the-eitc-assistant

Look at your 2022 Form 1040 to see the child-related credits you received

PREVIEW 1040

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1901539-how-do-i-preview-my-turbotax-online-return-before-filing

Child Tax Credit line 19

Credit for Other Dependents line 19

Earned Income Credit line 27

Additional Child Tax Credit line 28

[Hal_Al]

The child tax credit  (CTC) is  limited to your tax liability. The CTC is a non-refundable credit and can only reduce your income tax to 0, It can not help you beyond eliminating your tax liability. But, if you have more than $2500 of earned income, some or all of it is usually given back to you thru the "Additional Child tax credit". That is, part of the CTC may be on line 28 of form 1040 (2021 & 2022) instead of line 19. The  ACTC is calculated on form 8812 and  is basically 15% of your earned income over $2500. The ACTC is a maximum of $1500 per child (not $2000).

[Ms4lachon]

Yes my son is 16yrs old I put him they said I got 2000 and 421 eic I'm about to amend it because I should have got it.. It's only showing what I received from my job 

[HelenC12]

The Child Tax Credit (CTC) and the Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC) are made up of refundable and nonrefundable credits. 

• You may get up to $2,000 tax benefit for each child under age 17 but that does not mean you'll automatically get an additional $2,000 refund.

Refundable tax credits are treated as payments of tax you made during the year. When the total of these credits is greater than the tax you owe, the IRS sends you a tax refund for the difference. 

• In 2022, the tax credit will be refundable only up to $1,500, depending on your income. 
• You must have earned income of at least $2,500 to be eligible for the refund. Once again, that does not mean you will get the entire $1,500. TurboTax will calculate the amount based on your income, other credits you're eligible for, the taxes you paid in and the taxes that still may be due.  
• Your tax return will list all refundable tax credits, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EIC), in the same section you report your tax payments. Please see your Form 1040 Lines 27 and 28. 

A nonrefundable credit essentially means that the credit can’t be used to increase your tax refund or to create a tax refund when you wouldn’t have already had one. 

• In other words, your savings cannot exceed the amount of tax you owe.
• Please see your Form 1040, Line 19 for the Child tax credit that you are eligible for.
• For additional information, see What Is the Difference Between a Refundable and a Nonrefundable Credit?

Additional information: The Earned Income Credit (EIC) is based on your income, filing status, dependents, etc., and the IRS EIC tables. See IRS Publication 596 Earned Income Credit (EIC), scroll down and search for your income, filing status and number of dependents, to see your EIC amount. 

Related information:

How does the Earned Income Credit or EIC affect my refund?