Our 67-year-old now starts to pay, starts to receive from Social Security, and the amount that the person could expect to receive from Social Security drops down. It drops down because of the probability of the person being alive. Social Security, unlike private retirement funds, is subject to a 100 percent estate tax.
You can't claim a dependent at all if you qualify as someone else's dependent. For example, if you're younger than 24, go to school full-time, and if you lived with your parents half the tax year and contributed less than half of your own support, you can't claim your child under any circumstances.
Report Abuse. It is true that a dependent may not have to live with you. However, to get the most tax benefits for a dependent child, the child must live with you for more than six months. You can never claim an unrelated person who does not live with you, even if you support the person.ou cannot claim a person who is a qualifying child of another person and does not live with you. However, if the person is a relative and there is no one who can claim the person as a qualifying child, then you may be able to claim the person as a qualifying relative even if the person does not live with you.