@MindyB wrote:
TurboTax automatically applies Head of Household "HOH" if you have a qualifying dependent and pay more than half of the cost of your home upkeep.
To add HOH, in the My Info section, during the interview, indicate that Yes, you did pay more than half of the cost to keep up your home in 2025.
I'm trying to enter someone's information now who does meet the criteria for HOH and TT is refusing to allow it. I have read the requirements and verified the information is correct, but it simply isn't allowing it. I believe it is a bug within the TT software.
Looking at 2d in the help window that pops up from the program.
You can file as Head of Household if either SITUATION A or SITUATION B described below applies to you.
SITUATION A:
You provide a home for certain other persons, you were unmarried or legally separated as of December 31, 2025, and ONE of the following was true:
2. You paid over half the cost of keeping up a home in which you lived and in which one of the following also lived for more than half of the year:
(d) Any other relative, as defined by the IRS, you can claim as a dependent.
The relative in question (d) is on the list provided, and they qualify as a dependent.
One thing I noticed is that in the dependents screen, their status is listed as "No Entry." Could that have something to do with it?
ETA:
I managed to fix it. I went to the forms and clicked the HOH option there. Then returned to the step-by-step and it finally allowed me to say that I provided more than half the support for the household. When looking at the list of dependents, there is a status listed now (saying "Dependent").
So I believe this is a bug where the status is not being properly handled when entering possible dependents.
