@GENEVAHUNT61 Who said your daughter claimed you? The IRS will not tell you when someone claimed you. Did your daughter tell you that she claimed you? Does she pay over half of your support? (You do not necessarily have to live with her to be claimed as her dependent if she pays for your support).
Unfortunately, if your daughter--or someone else--claimed you as a dependent, you will not be eligible for a stimulus check, since dependents cannot get stimulus checks. The stimulus check situation has caused some people who only receive Social Security or SSI to discover that various family members (among others) have been claiming them as dependents even when they should not, and it is messing up their eligibility for stimulus checks. The IRS has not put into effect any quick way to fix this. (I hope they eventually figure out a quicker way to fix this)
You can file your own tax return but if your SSN has already been used in the system--and it sounds like it has been--then your only way to file is to print, sign and mail the return. Mailed returns take a long time for the IRS to process, so your hope to get a stimulus check this year is not good, sadly. But print and mail it anyhow to get it to the IRS so that the IRS will look at the other return that used your SSN. Then the IRS will sort it out, eventually.
Meanwhile--do you fit the criteria to be claimed as someone else's dependent? If you do not fit the criteria then the person who claimed you needs to amend their return (and it would be better to do that before they get a letter from the IRS). So talk to your daughter and find out. If she did in fact claim you, all she got was a $500 credit on her own tax return. She could not get your stimulus money.
Read the criteria for the Credit for Other Dependents---do you fit as a qualifying relative?
https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/children-dependents/help/what-is-the-500-credit-for-other-dependen...
When you prepare your own tax return, if your only income is Social Security or SSI, then enter $1 of interest so that a Form 1040 will print out and then mail it to the IRS.
https://www.irs.gov/filing/where-to-file-paper-tax-returns-with-or-without-a-payment
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