corona virus stimulus payment

[GENEVAHUNT61]

CAN I GET MINE I NEED MY AIR FIXED AND DATA ON MY PHONE I HAD TO COME TO LIBRUAY ON COMPUTE PLEASE HELP ME.

[Critter-3]

You are NOT going to like what I have to say ... but you will have to mail in the non filer return  AND  your daughter will have to amend her return to  remove you  IF  you are truly not a dependent ... as a parent you do not need to live with your child to be claimed ... all that she has to do is pay  for more than 1/2 of your annual expenses ... so if she pays more than what you get in your annual income then she was correct to claim you.  

[xmasbaby0]

@GENEVAHUNT61 Who said your daughter claimed you?  The IRS will not tell you when someone claimed you.  Did your daughter tell you that she claimed you?  Does she pay over half of your support? (You do not necessarily have to live with her to be claimed as her dependent if she pays for your support).

Unfortunately, if your daughter--or someone else--claimed you as a dependent, you will not be eligible for a stimulus check, since dependents cannot get stimulus checks.  The stimulus check situation has caused some people who only receive Social Security or SSI to discover that various family members (among others) have been claiming them as dependents even when they should not, and it is messing up their eligibility for stimulus checks.  The IRS has not put into effect any quick way to fix this.  (I hope they eventually figure out a quicker way to fix this)

You can file your own tax return but if your SSN has already been used in the system--and it sounds like it has been--then your only way to file is to print, sign and mail the return.  Mailed returns take a long time for the IRS to process, so your hope to get a stimulus check this year is not good, sadly.  But print and mail it anyhow to get it to the IRS so that the IRS will look at the other return that used your SSN.  Then the IRS will sort it out, eventually.  

Meanwhile--do you fit the criteria to be claimed as someone else's dependent?  If you do not fit the criteria then the person who claimed you needs to amend their return (and it would be better to do that before they get a letter from the IRS).  So talk to your daughter and find out.  If she did in fact claim you, all she got was a $500 credit on her own tax return.  She could not get your stimulus money.

Read the criteria for the  Credit for Other Dependents---do you fit as a qualifying relative?

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/children-dependents/help/what-is-the-500-credit-for-other-dependen...

When you prepare your own tax return, if your only income is Social Security or SSI, then enter $1 of interest so that a Form 1040 will print out and then mail it to the IRS.

https://www.irs.gov/filing/where-to-file-paper-tax-returns-with-or-without-a-payment

[Texas Roger]

Have you asked your daughter if she claimed you? She may have claimed you even if you don't meet the requirements to be claimed by her. You don't have to live with her but she would have to provide more than half your total support in order for her to claim you legally. Here are the requirements for you to be claimed by your daughter:

1. The person cannot be your qualifying child or the qualifying child of any other taxpayer. A child is not the qualifying child of any other taxpayer if the child's parent (or any other person for whom the child is defined as a qualifying child) is not required to file an income tax return or files an income tax return only to get a refund on income tax withheld.
2. The person either (a) must be related to you or (b) must live with you all year as a member of your household.
3. The person's gross taxable income for the year must be less than $4,200 in 2019. This does not include Social Security.
4. You must provide more than half of the person's total support for the year. This must include Social Security. 
5. The person must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. resident alien, U.S. national, or a resident of Canada or Mexico.

Unfortunately if she claimed you there is not much you can do quickly to resolve the issue to get a stimulus check. 

If she did claim you, the only way to have a chance to get the stimulus payment this year is to file a tax return. If you did that, then both you and your daughter would be claiming you and the IRS would have to contact both of you to determine who could rightfully claim you. That would probably not be done until late in the year or even next year. 

You can file a tax return for 2020 in early 2021 and get the stimulus payment then. It is actually an advance on a 2020 credit. 

[Brenry]

she sounds like such a millenial. Get over it. Be grateful they didn't hold receipts and ask you to pay them back for everything over the last 19 years including hospital bills at birth.

[rothchr]

My grandson did not get a stimulus check in the spring of 2020 when everyone got one.   He had been filing his own taxes for two years and on his own providing more than half his own support during 2019, but since his parents had claimed him as a dependent in 2018 and his taxes in 2019 were mailed in instead of being electronically filed somehow he was skipped over on the issusing of a stimulus check.   I had a tax accountant that said don't worry you can claim it on your 2020 taxes as a credit but I fail to see where that will be claimed.

[xmasbaby0]

@rothchr Line 30 of a 2020 Form 1040 is where your grandson can indicate that he should receive the stimulus check since he did not receive it yet. His mailed in amended return may still be in the pile of millions of unopened envelopes.  It is taking the IRS over six months to process amended returns.

[Critter-3]

As you complete the federal review look for this screen ... this is where you will let the IRS know how much of the stimulus check you have already gotten ( if any) ...