Are you asking about the advance child tax credit payment? Or the child tax credit on your 2020 tax return? Or both?
On a 2020 tax return you get the CTC for a child who was UNDER the age of 17 at the end of 2020. If the child was older than 16 at the end of 2020 you only get the credit for other dependents. Or if the child was born in 2020 you had to say they lived with you the WHOLE year to get the CTC. And they need Social Security numbers----did you enter SSN's for them?
Post back with some more information. What are the ages of the children? Amending is not going to get you the advance payments because it takes six months or more for the IRS to process amended returns. But you might need to amend to get the CTC on your 2020 return.
If you are eligible to get the CTC for all of the kids you will eventually get it on your 2021 tax return.
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