{"id":20009,"date":"2017-06-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hrblock.com\/tax-center\/"},"modified":"2017-08-09T15:40:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T15:40:01","slug":"social-security-supplemental-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hrblock.com\/tax-center\/filing\/personal-tax-planning\/social-security-supplemental-income\/","title":{"rendered":"My family members receive social security and supplemental security income (SSI). Can I still claim them as dependents?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe. Your relatives might be your qualifying children if both of these are true:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your family members are any of these:\n<ul>\n<li>Under age 19 and younger than you or your spouse<\/li>\n<li>Under age 24, a full-time student, and younger than you or your spouse<\/li>\n<li>Permanently and totally disabled and any age<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Your family members lived with you over half of the year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, there&#8217;s another part of the qualifying child rule &#8212; the support test. This test requires that your relatives don&#8217;t provide more than half their own support. It doesn&#8217;t mean you have to provide a certain amount of support. It only requires that your family members don&#8217;t provide too much of their own support.<\/p>\n<p>Social security income is support provided by the individual, and government assistance, like SSI, is support that comes from a third party. This means it doesn&#8217;t come from you .<\/p>\n<p>If your family member doesn&#8217;t qualify as a qualifying child, they might qualify as a dependent under the qualifying relative rules.<\/p>\n<p>The support test under this rule requires that you provide more than half their support. So, if most of their support comes from government assistance, you won&#8217;t be able to claim them as dependents.<\/p>\n<p>The qualifying-relative rule also has an income test. Your family members must have gross income that is less than $5,200. If the Social Security income is tax-exempt, these amounts aren&#8217;t included in your family members&#8217; gross income.<\/p>\n<p>There are additional requirements for your family members to qualify as your dependents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe. 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