Why am I getting only $500 per child for the \"Other Dependent\" tax credit instead of the $2000 per child for the actual \"Child\" tax credit?

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March 24, 2024
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Both my children appear to meet the Child Tax Credit criteria listed by TT: US Citizen, Under 17, did not support themselves, has SSN, lived with me all year.

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DoninGA

Employee

When entering their Social Security numbers, did you check the box "Not valid for employment"? If you did, that would prevent the child tax credit. You will need to uncheck that box.

3dbobby

Oh wow. Is that checkbox something new this year? Because I was able to get the $2000 per child last year and I didn't touch that check box this year. It was checked by default.

Intuit should definitely look into that and change that to uncheck by default because I have never had this problem with Turbo Tax for several years until filing this year.

It was driving me nuts with the same issue this year with it all of a sudden being $500 per child when I used to get $2000 each.
At first, I thought it had something to do with our income (AGI) which lowered from $90k to $50k last year due to unemployment for part of the year.

KeshaH

You should not have the checkbox checked saying they aren't eligible for employment. Uncheck that box and your credit should go back up to $2,000 per child.

@3dbobby

morganbrown

If you’ve already completed that portion, how do you go back and uncheck the box? I can’t seem to get back to it.