Yes, she needs to file her 2020 tax return to receive the stimulus payments as the Recovery Rebate credit.
As a dependent on your 2019 tax return, your daughter was not eligible and did not receive the stimulus payments.
If she is not a dependent in tax year 2020, she is eligible for both stimulus payments and she can claim them as the Recovery Rebate credit when she files her 2020 tax return.
In TurboTax Online, to claim the Recovery Rebate credit please do the following:
- Sign into your account and continue from where you left off
- Click on Federal in the left-hand column, then on Federal Review on the top of the screen
- On the next page titled Let's make sure you got the right stimulus amount, click on Continue
- Follow the interview
- TurboTax will determine whether you are entitled to any additional stimulus
- Any stimulus amount remaining due to you will show as a credit on line 30 of your form 1040.
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