you will qualify regardless. it'll just take time here is your 'worst case scenario' if the IRS happens to use 2018. The stimulus payments are really based on your 2020 tax return (income, dependents, etc).The IRS is using either 2018 or 2019 – whatever is available - to ESTIMATE that paymentWhen you file next year there will be a “settle up” section on the tax return. If you are due more stimulus (and this would include where you simply never received it), you will receive it through the 2020 tax filing as an additional refundIf you received too much stimulus (not the issue here), by law , you are not required to return it\so you would get it, it's just a matter of when!

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I was claimed dependent in 2018. I filed my 2019 taxes as independent on April 22nd. Will I receive a stimulus check because I am now independent or will it go off of my 2018 taxes since I waited to

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you will qualify regardless. it'll just take time

here is your 'worst case scenario' if the IRS happens to use 2018.

The stimulus payments are really based on your 2020 tax return (income, dependents, etc).
The IRS is using either 2018 or 2019 – whatever is available - to ESTIMATE that payment
When you file next year there will be a “settle up” section on the tax return.
If you are due more stimulus (and this would include where you simply never received it), you will receive it through the 2020 tax filing as an additional refund
If you received too much stimulus (not the issue here), by law , you are not required to return it\

so you would get it, it's just a matter of when!

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djruppertAuthor

That’s great news. Would be nice to receive this year but as long as I receive it some time that’s good to hear. Thanks for the information @NCPERSON1!