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sbakkerad
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I am having trouble receiving my EIC it keeps saying that my kids are not eligible. Can someone help me, what am I doing wrong?

How am I supposed to ill this in for my EIC?
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I am having trouble receiving my EIC it keeps saying that my kids are not eligible. Can someone help me, what am I doing wrong?

If you have income earned from working and you have entered the information about your qualifying children dependents correctly, the EIC is added to your return automatically.

 

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 2024 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.

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-credits-deductions/qualifications-ea...

 

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

 

 

 

 

Look at your 2024 Form 1040 to see the child-related credits you received

 

PREVIEW 1040

https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-return/preview-turbotax-online-retur...

 

Child Tax Credit line 19

Credit for Other Dependents line 19

Earned Income Credit line 27

Additional Child Tax Credit line 28

 

 

**Disclaimer: Every effort has been made to offer the most correct information possible. The poster disclaims any legal responsibility for the accuracy of the information that is contained in this post.**
Hal_Al
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I am having trouble receiving my EIC it keeps saying that my kids are not eligible. Can someone help me, what am I doing wrong?

The non-custodial parent can never claim the Earned Income Credit, Head of Household filing status or the day care credit, based on his child, even when the custodial parent (or a court order) has released the dependency to him.

 

 There is a special rule in the case of divorced & separated (including never married) parents. When the non-custodial parent is claiming the child as a dependent/exemption/child tax credit; the custodial parent is still allowed to claim the same child for Earned Income Credit, Head of Household filing status, and day care credit. This "splitting of the child" is not available to parents who lived together at any time during the last 6 months of the year; then only one of you can claim the child for any tax reasons. The tax benefits may not be split in any other manner.

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