Dependent Eligibility for Third stimulus payment:Rebate Recovery Credit

[ljm5kracer]

Re 2020 tax year filing: Must a 17 year old high school student who otherwise meets the definition of a “dependent” qualifying child be claimed by parents as a dependent? Student filed independently in 2019 and will need to do so in 2020. Since parents didn’t qualify for third stimulus check due to income, will student be able to claim $1400 stimulus check as a recovery credit on her 2020 taxes so long as her parents did not claim her as their dependent on parents 2020 tax filing?

[KrisD15]

If the student is your dependent, you can claim her or not. 

She can file her own return but only as a dependent of someone else. 

Just because you don't claim her does not mean she is not your dependent. 

If she is NOT your dependent, she will be eligible for a stimulus payment.