FYI: Two different IRS ITAs for determining Dependents - one is is correct and one is broken

[gwgaston]

I had some issues with TurboTax Online given the wrong decision about whether my 23 year old full time student, live at home son was a "Qualifying Child" and afforded me the ODC credit. 

Seems TurboTax has corrected that (for the most part - there are still some odd quirks with the screens when you edit a dependent but it still come up with the correct answer).

In trying to get to the bottom of this, I fould that the IRS is not really clear/correct with their various Interactive Tax Assistants (ITAs).

Compare the two:

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

and

https://www.irs.gov/help/ita/whom-may-i-claim-as-a-dependent


See the screen shots in this existing thread:


https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/re-ongoing-issue-with-dependent-child-odc-status-...