They will get it. There is no way to "add your child to your stimulus rebate"
If you haven't filed 2019 yet, and you claimed your child on your 2018 return, there's a chance you both may get the $500.
Why did a relative claim your child? That is allowed under certain circumstances.
.A child closely related to a taxpayer can be a “Qualifying Child (QC)” dependent, regardless of the child's income, if:
- He is under age 19, or under 24 if a full time student for at least 5 months of the year, or is totally & permanently disabled
- He did not provide more than 1/2 his own support
- He lived with the relative (including temporary absences) for more than half the year. That doesn't mean you lived in the relative's home. It just means you lived in the same home.
- He is younger than the relative (not applicable for a disabled child)
- If the child meets the rules to be a qualifying child of more than one person, you must be the person entitled to claim the child as a qualifying child (this essentially means that you have the parent’s permission to claim the child, if the child also lived with the parent more than half the year)
- If the parents of a child can claim the child as a qualifying child but no parent so claims the child, no one else can claim the child as a qualifying child unless that person's adjusted gross income (AGI) is higher than the highest AGI of any of the child's parents who can claim the child.
https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/tax-tips/Family/Rules-for-Claiming-a-Dependent-on-Your-Tax-Ret...
