If you claim your child on your taxes and she works and is having withholding taxes taken out of her checks, does that money belong to her? I am a foster parent for this child. Her step mom filed the taxes. Our foster daughter made $7,071.50 and state took out $190.94 , Fed. took out $0.00, Medicare took out $102.54 and social took out $297.00. After the taxes were filed, her father kept the tax refund. So our foster daughter just wants to know if that money is owed to her from her dad.