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February 11, 2021
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Can I get my son stimulus money post to my direct Social Security card I didn't get money for him last year or this year

  • February 11, 2021
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I never received his stimulus money last year or this year I got my 1200 last year and my 600 this year but I didn't get his 500 last year or his 600 this year

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February 11, 2021

Make sure that your son is correctly reported as a qualifying child on your tax return. qualifying child is a child who meets the following conditions:

  • Relationship to the individual who’s eligible for the payment: The child is your son, daughter, stepchild, eligible foster child, brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister, half-brother, half-sister, or a descendant of any of them (for example, grandchild, niece, or nephew).
  • Child's age: The child was under age 17 on December 31, 2019.
  • Dependent of the individual who's eligible for the payment: The child was claimed as your dependent on your 2019 tax return or in the Non-Filers: Enter Payment Info Here tool.
  • Child's citizenship: The child’s a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or U.S. resident alien.
  • Child's residency: The child lived with you for more than half of 2019.
  • Support for child: The child didn’t provide over half of their own support for 2019.
  • Child's tax return: The child doesn’t file a joint return for the year (or files it only to claim a refund of withheld income tax or estimated tax paid). 

In addition, a qualifying child must have either:

  • An SSN that’s valid for employment and assigned to them before the due date of your 2019 return (including the filing deadline postponement to July 15 and an extension to October 15 if you requested it); or
  • An ATIN. 

An ITIN won’t be accepted for a qualifying child.

 

Note: When the qualifying child is claimed by spouses filing a joint return, at least one spouse must have an SSN that’s valid for employment for a qualifying child to be considered. If the return isn’t filed by married spouses filing a joint return, the taxpayer filing the return must have an SSN that’s valid for employment for a qualifying child to be considered.

 

The TurboTax software adds together the entries that you made for receiving stimulus check 1 and stimulus check 2.

 

Then the software computes the amount of your stimulus check amounts based upon the information that has been entered into the tax software. 

 

If you are due an additional amount, it will be issued as a Recovery Rebate Credit (RRC) on line 30 of the 2020 1040 tax return.

 

If you believe that you are due a Rebate Recovery Credit (RRC) on line 30 of the 2020 1040 tax return, then you should: 

  • Check the amounts entered for stimulus check 1 and stimulus check 2, and
  • Make sure that you have correctly entered your dependent information.

If there is a difference, it is in one or both of these situations. 

 

In TurboTax Online, you are prompted to input stimulus check 1 and stimulus check 2 information under Review down the left hand side of the screen.

 

You can also access your stimulus check choices by following these steps: 

  • Down the left side of the screen, click on Federal.
  • Across the top of the screen, click on Other Tax Situations.
  • At the screen Let’s keep going to wrap up.  Click on Let’s keep going.
  • At the screen Let’s make sure you got the right stimulus amount, click Continue.
  • At the screen Did you get a stimulus payment? you can update your stimulus check entries.

  See also this TurboTax Help.

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February 12, 2021

I can't figure out how to post my own question so piggy backing off this...

 

Two weeks ago it said to enter round two stimulus check if received Dec. 2020-Jan. 2021 (we received ours in Jan.) and we were going to get a refund of 1533.  NOW it is saying thru Feb. and so I have to enter the $2400, whereas I didn't with the first set of dates, and now we owe $867, which is exactly the the amount of our second stimulus check.  I am not understanding.

 

Do I need to enter the second round for my 2020 tax return?  And if so, why did we even get the amount if it ends up taking it all away from us? 

VolvoGirl
Employee
February 12, 2021

Yes you have to enter both rounds of Stimulus payments.  Turbo Tax starts out assuming you didn't get any so it gives you a high refund.  The you enter you already got it so it takes it out.    Otherwise you would get it again which would be wrong and twice.