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Head of Household

You are the head of a household if you have left your parental home on a permanent basis and you are responsible for the day-to-day decisions on the operation of your own household. You need not have someone living with you to be the head of a household.

If you live with your parent(s) or stepparents, SSA will ordinarily assume you are not the head of a household. However, SSA will consider you to be the head of a household if for some reason (such as your parent's illness) you are the one who makes the day-to-day decisions.

If you live with one or more people and everyone has an equal voice in the decision-making (for example, a group of students who share off-campus housing), that group is not a household. Each person who has left the parental home on a permanent basis is the head of his or her own household.

NOTE: Before April 2005, students who were married or heads of household were not eligible for the Student Earned Income Exclusion (SEIE) even if they met the other criteria to be considered a student. Eligibility was expanded under H.R. 743, the Social Security Protection Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-203). Effective April 1, 2005 you can qualify for the SEIE if you are under age 22 and you are a student regularly attending school.

Source

Some information for this topic was drawn from the SSA website at:
http://policy.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0500820510
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/legislation/legis_bulletin_030404.html

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