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.
Qualifying Child/Relative. You can claim an individual as a dependent if he is either a qualifying child or a qualifying relative. If you claim a person as a qualifying child, then another person cannot claim that same child as a qualifying relative.ax forms image by Chad McDermott from Fotolia.com. When you are filing your taxes, you can receive an exemption for people you claim as dependents. However, there are requirements that a person must meet in order to be claimed as a dependent on a tax return.