- Started to pay more attention when filing taxes for 2024 and realized the check box was ticked "Not Valid for employment" on SSN section for my 5 years old toddler , which reduced the child credit that I would have been getting in the last 4 years from $2000 to $500. On the personal section, I marked my toddler as U.S Citizen. Why did turbotax not check that these information was conflicted nor even have such option on SSN section after I already mark the person as US citizen.
Furthermore, when I did the tax amendment, the form 1040X did not have question/checkbox for "Not Valid for employment".
I missed out thousands because of this mistaken, which I think turbotax could have checked or conditioned the option to not visible upon previous answer. Really disappointed.