Taxes: If you've only got unemployment $$ all year can you still get $$ back?

[Sequoia]

For child tax credit, etc. even if you didn't pay taxes?

[Matariki]

1. You only get a refund on taxes you overpaid.

Regarding unemployment, it would depend if you opted to have federal taxes taken out of the checks or not.

[DeadEyeDyck]

2. I would think so

[Kennah]

3. I do not believe so

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/12/10/tax-relief-unemployment-insurance-reauthorization-and-job-creation-act-2

[dems_rightnow]

4. No

The regular Child Tax Credit is limited by the amount of tax you pay.

Even the refundable "Additional Child Tax Credit" is requires you to have "earned income" in order to claim it.

[Sequoia]

5. Bummer. Thanks everyone. I need a job !!!

[Kennah]

6. There is this

http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc418.html

Unemployment benefits are included in your gross, and taxable, so it would seem the Child Tax Credit does offset taxes owed.

[Obamanaut]

7. Is unemployment $$ taxable? Is anything withheld? If not, how can

one get anything 'back', if nothing was sent in?

[tammywammy]

8. It is taxable after $2500, I believe...that's what it was for the 2009 taxes.

You can choose to have taxes withheld from it.

[david13]

9. There is some minimum income supplement or something. I

forget what they call it. They say that all the people what are elegible for it don't get it.
They don't know & don't apply.
You actually get a refund over and above what you paid in, a ... subsidy or something. Try IRS website, or google search.
dc