If you are not getting the stimulus or the child tax credit for your newborn in 2021, please verify your entries for your child:
- Open or continue your return in TurboTax, if you aren't already in it.
- Select My Info in the left navigation.
- Select Edit next to your child.
- When we ask how many months your newborn lived with you, always answer The whole year, even if your baby was born on the last day of 2021.
- Did your child pay for more than half of her living expenses? Make sure you answer No, the wording is tricky and trips a lot of people up.
- Make sure that Your child's Social Security Number is not valid for employment box is not checked.
If your child is correctly listed as your dependent and you meet the other requirements, you should receive the full $3,600 in Child Tax Credit and $1,400 stimulus once you revisit those sections.
To verify those amounts are on your tax return, you can preview your 1040:
- Open or continue your return.
- Select Tax Tools in the left menu (if you don't see this, select the menu icon in the upper-left corner).
- With the Tax Tools menu open, you can then view your 1040 form: Select Tools. Next, select View Tax Summary in the pop-up, then Preview my 1040 in the left menu
- Scroll down until you see Form 1040 Line 28 Refundable child tax credit and Line 30 Recovery Rebate Credit. They should be $3,600 and $1,400 respectively if this is your only child and you received the proper amount of stimulus not including your newborn.
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