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December 5, 2025
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Claiming my son

  • December 5, 2025
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  • Can my boyfriend who me and my son live with for over a year claim?My son for the child tax credit for 2025 because I did not do not work and provided over 90% of household income

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    Level 15
    December 5, 2025

    If I understand correctly you have no income and are not filing a return. Your boyfriend and your son lived together all of the tax year and provided more than half of his support. I assume that the child has no income. In that case your boyfriend can claim the child as a dependent but must file as single and not Head of Household. 

    Level 2
    December 5, 2025

    Thank you and is the reason he can't claim head of household because we are not married? And correct i do not work im just in the waiting process (approval process) of getting social security disability benefits 

    VolvoGirl
    Level 15
    December 5, 2025

    Actually it is not married to claim Head of Household or lived apart from your spouse.   Is he the father of your son?   To claim Head of Household he has to have a blood relative.  

    Who is a qualifying person for Head of Household

    https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/family/help/what-is-a-qualifying-person-for-head-of-household/00/26624

     

    And is he claiming both your son and you as dependents?   He can probably claim both of you if you lived with him all year.