Your son will have to file a 2020 income tax return to get the stimulus payments. The IRS is no longer sending out separate stimulus payments. Instead the stimulus amounts will be included as a “refund” on the 2020 tax return. He should get $1,800 ($1,200 + $600).
Generally, you are eligible to claim the Recovery Rebate Credit (stimulus) if you were a U.S. citizen or U.S. resident alien in 2020, cannot be claimed as a dependent of another taxpayer for tax year 2020, and have a Social Security number valid for employment that is issued before the due date of your 2020 tax return (including extensions).
Learn more at What is the Recovery Rebate Credit?
Pay received for work while an inmate in a penal institution is not taxable so if your son is working, he does not have to include that income on his tax return.
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