my kid filed own tax return last year and accidentally forgot to check the box "someone else can claim me as dependent". Hence my kid ended up getting a stimulus check. We returned it to IRS because stimulus is meant for people that were/are severely impacted due to the pandemic. There were two reasons why I decided to return. First, knowing that IRS stimulus system was full of glitches, it was morally wrong to accept. Second, not knowing how IRS might look this stimulus payments in the future and what investigations it might conduct, I do not want my kid's future to be tainted by keeping stimulus that did not belong to us.
