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If your GF lived with you for the whole year in 2023 and had less than $4700 of income --not including any Social Security----then she might meet the criteria to be claimed as a "qualified relative" dependent for the $500 credit for other dependents. Here is the criteria:
Qualifying relative
When you add someone as a dependent, we'll ask a series of questions to make sure you can claim them. There may be other tax benefits you can get when you claim a dependent.
Related Information:
CREDIT FOR OTHER DEPENDENTS
Maybe, she must have lived with you all year and have little income of her own.
There are two types of dependents, "Qualifying Children"(QC) and Other ("Qualifying Relative" in IRS parlance even though they don't have to actually be related). There is no income limit for a QC but there is an age limit and student status test, a relationship test and a residence test. Only a QC qualifies a taxpayer for the Earned Income Credit and the Child Tax Credit. The Other dependent (qualifying relative) credit is worth (up to) $500 per dependent and is non-refundable. That is, it can only be used to reduce an actual tax liability.
A person can still be a Qualifying relative dependent, if not a Qualifying Child, if he meets the 6 tests for claiming a dependent:
Even if she qualifies as a dependent, she is not a qualifying person for you to file as "Head of Household" She must be related to you, for that.
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