How Do I File Taxes Without My Child's Social Security Number? - Weekend Wisdom

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Question: My husband and I finalized our adoption in December 2025, and we’re still waiting for our son’s birth certificate in the mail. Then we’ll need to take it to file for an SSN and wait for that to arrive. How can we file taxes, including our newborn baby, without a Social Security Number for him? (We didn’t know we could file for a temporary number with the IRS until it was too late - after his finalization hearing). Resources: The 2025 Adoption Tax Credit (podcast) The Annual Adoption Tax Credit Guide: 2025 Edition IRS.gov: Adoption taxpayer identification number Support the show Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by . We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content: Weekly podcasts Weekly articles/blog posts Resource pages on all aspects of family building

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How Do I File Taxes Without My Child's Social Security Number? - Weekend Wisdom is an episode from Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care by Creating a Family.

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This episode was published on Mar 14, 2026.

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