According to TurboTax, my child qualifies as my dependent. Him and I meet all the criteria for the Child Tax Credit, yet TT says he isn't qualified. Makes no sense. Help.

[reynolds_wrap]

He is under 17, he is my son, he has lived with me more than half the year, he is a US citizen, his mom and I have a written legal agreement that I can claim him this year, I make less than the income limit, he has not paid for his own living expenses and I am filing head of household. Why would TT say he qualifies as my dependent in one section, then say "It turns out you don't qualify for these credits" in the actual Child Tax Credit deduction section? According to TT, he doesn't qualify: "Because he had another disqualifying situation, (he) doesn't count for the Child Tax Credit." I have no idea why, help?

[reynolds_wrap]

Since I can't delete my post, I'm going to reply to it. 

I fixed this by deleting my dependent completely, which changed my filing status back to Single (minor annoyance). I then added my son back in from scratch... and magically the child tax credit was applied. I have no answers, others than I deleted the info and added it back in... and it worked. *shrug*

[gjones9]

I'm so glad you weren't able to delete your original post.  I had a cx on the phone today who had the same problem and your response helped us clear the error!  Thank you!