KrisD15
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After you file

The stimulus payment is really an advance of a 2020 credit. If you are eligible, and you don't receive the payment in 2020, you will get  the same amount you should have gotten as a payment in the form of additional refund on your 2020 tax year return that you file in 2021. 

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