Daughter did not receive $1200 stimulus check last year or this year

[corn18]

I claimed my daughter as a dependent in 2019 while she was at college. She didn't receive a $1,200 stimulus check in 2020 because of this. She is now filing her taxes for 2020 and is trying to figure out how to claim the $1,200 stimulus check (she was not my dependent in 2020). She earned $10k so she owes no taxes. It is my understanding that she should still be able to claim and receive the $1200 for the stimulus. Is this correct? If so, how does she do that?

Thanks,

Corn

[Hebell]

In her tax return she will need to file for the recovery rebate credit

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/recovery-rebate-credit

And TurboTax fully incorporates that form

https://blog.turbotax.intuit.com/tax-de ... 48681/amp/

[FiveK]

If she could not be claimed as your dependent (whether you claim her or not), she should get the Recovery Rebate Credit on line 30 of Form 1040.

[theplayer11]

My D is in the same boat. I just checked Freetaxusa and they have it in their software, including the $600.

[corn18]

In her tax return she will need to file for the recovery rebate credit

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/recovery-rebate-credit

And TurboTax fully incorporates that form

https://blog.turbotax.intuit.com/tax-de ... 48681/amp/

Thanks to your link, we discovered that that part of TurboTax online is not available until 1/28. So we should be good to go.

[Deontic]

Your daughter is entitled to obtain payment for EIP 1 ($1,200) and EIP 2 ($600) that gets reconciled when she submits her income tax return for tax year 2020 which includes a total of $1,800 in RRC paid to her.

IRS decoder ring:
EIP Economic Impact Payment
RRC Recovery Rebate Credit

Yours is one of a number of situations where a change in some status (e.g., a dependent who is no longer dependent, a child is born in 2020, one's income suddenly drops in 2020) from 2019 to 2020 enabling payment of a credit which one may not have expected.