26 year old son shows as dependent

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April 14, 2025
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In Person Info section, I went through the questions:

1. 26 year old son

2. Selected that he lived with me whole year while he is a full-time medical school student

3. He is not married

4. He has ZERO income so I answered no to $5050 income question

5. I, as a parent, paid for more than half of his support last year

He shows as "Dependent" in the list of children in PERSON INFO section. I was expecting to see "Qualifying Relative" since he is over 24. Is this normal at this point in Turbo Tax?

TurboTax Home & Biz Windows

xmasbaby0

Employee

He is a qualifying relative and you should be seeing the $500 credit for other dependents on line 19 of your Form 1040 for him.

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JohnB5677

I understand the question, and the circumstance.

I do agree that that age issue will make him a qualifying relative, but for tax purposes there is no difference.
You can continue to file your taxes with confidence.
I will forward this post for review.

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AsifNAuthor

A related question... he wants to file taxes this year even though there was no income in 2024. He says the reason is that he will apply for FAFSA at the end of the year and if IRS has no data about him, he won't be able to complete his FAFSA and it may impact his loans. Not sure if any of that is true, but if he does file, should he select YES to the question when TT asks if he can be claimed as a dependent?