Your son did not receive a stimulus payment---YOU received it. If your son CANNOT be claimed as a dependent for 2020 then he is allowed to use the recovery rebate credit to get the 1st and 2nd stimulus payments. The credit is based on his 2020 return--not on what you received. The way Congress wrote the law allows a payment to the "kid" who is no longer a dependent for 2020 even if the parent received a payment for the dependent the year before. And lucky for you...you do not have to pay yours back.
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