Well it wasn’t luck- my child was 15 during the year 2019 and the stimulus payments were based on the 2019 tax returns. It was the law not luck. And she was still 16 until the end of this past year. I’m aware I don’t need to pay anything back and I read on NPR and other reputable news sites that the child credit was based on 2019 for the second stimulus payment also. I was looking to see if there was a way to and the return to include the missing amount of the $500 dependent credit for the second economic impact on line 30 of the 2020 return.
