I had a foster child for 16 months. I opted out of the child tax credit and they sent the money in two checks the first two and i gave the mother $1400 Stimlus and the two checks of the child tax credit money. which they should of put in our direct deposit as all our taxes were but they didnt. anyway i continued to click on opt out on the IRS site then after about 12 times it no longer would recognize my name and i could not contact them. I called over and over and stayed on the line for 2 1/2 hours sometimes i finally got ahold of one man and he said it was the wrong dept of IRS so he sent me to another section by phone and they never answered after 2 1/2 hours of waiting . I then received two more checks both were for two months at a time of child tax credit they were direct deposited and i was overdrawn and it took that money both times. I had had my spouse die of covid and i had hard times and got my account messed up. i didnt know that the IRS would then change and start putting those checks into my bank account changing the way they had started out paying the child tax credit. i did not mean for any of this to happen and i tried very hard to notify the IRS many many times. I now have the paper to pay back $1800 dollars in child tax credit taxes and i dont know where to put them on my return. I also had paid the mother $1400 and the first two child tax credit money i cashed and gave directly to her. These were based on mine and my husbands 2020 tax return and my spouse died Dec 23 2020. Please let me know where i put the paper i received it said on a 8812 but i dont have the child on my tax return this year and what am i going to do this was not my fault this happened i tried to get it stopped and tried to get it never to be sent in first place. IRS never would answer the phone and i needed to have imediate help with it. I thought that the mother was going to claim the thing and she wouldnt until this year she said. Please help me find out what to do .I am on fixed income and disability and small pension. i dont have alot of money to pay taxes on all this. and no money really but 111 coming back in Federal money either. Thank You.
