on the 2020 tax return, the parents with SS# and children with SS# are eligible for payments. If you are due more than you ACTUALLY received from the 1st two stimulus payments it will appear on Line 30. Anyone with ITIN is not eligible for a payment. At least one parent must have SS# for the children to be eligible.
for the 3rd stimulus payment, even if BOTH parents have ITIN, the children with SS# are still eligible for payments. If two parents have ITIN but two children have SS#, then parents should receive $2800. if they don't receive it in the next few months, it will get reconciled on the 2021 tax return and you will receive it as a credit on your tax return.
what changed was that for the 1st and 2nd stimulus payments, if both parents did not have ss#, then the children were ineligible even if they had ss#. for the 3rd stimulus payment, even if both parents did not have ss#, then the children are ELIGBLE as long as they had ss# .
