<prompt> Human: My dad pays me 500 dollars in child support per month, and I am in university.In 2015 I made 14,000 dollars and lived alone. my parents did not pay for housing I got a letter recently saying someone claimed me as dependent while I filed exemption so I texted my dad and he said he did because as long as you are in college and I pay child support I can. Is that correct? Thanks.  <response>: Yes, if you were temporarily absent because of education reasons, and you did not pay for half your support in 2015, and you were under age 24 at end of 2015 and a full-time student, you might be a qualifying child dependent that year. You may need to total up what counts as support for you. See Publication 17 chapter 3 worksheet 3-1. Find out if you paid more than half. If not, its possible your dad can claim you as a dependent, though its not because he paid child support. It would be because you didnt pay more than half the cost of your support, which is a subtly different statement. He doesnt actually have to be someone who provided more than half of your support to be able to claim you as a qualifying child.You definitely dont qualify as a dependent qualifying relative because you earned more than 4000 in 2015.There are also complicated rules that come into play if more than one person can claim you as a dependent. So I cant say for sure that your father is the one who can claim you if he is not the only one who is able to claim you. 