How do I find the Recovery Rebate Credit for my 2020 taxes?

[JamesG1]

@osnoobz

When you prepared your 2020 Federal 1040 tax return, did you report that you were a dependent?

In TurboTax Online, you are prompted to input stimulus check 1 and stimulus check 2 information under Review down the left hand side of the screen.  You can also access your stimulus check choices by following these steps: 

• Down the left side of the screen, click on Federal.
• Across the top of the screen, click on Other Tax Situations.
• At the screen Let’s keep going to wrap up.  Click on Let’s keep going.
• At the screen Let’s make sure you got the right stimulus amount, click Continue.
• At the screen Did you get a stimulus payment? you can update your stimulus check entries.

If you have not received one or both of your stimulus checks, you will receive your payment in the form of a Recovery Rebate Credit on line 30 of your 2020 Federal tax return when you file.

TurboTax will compare your one or two stimulus payment amounts to the computations within TurboTax.  The computations within TurboTax are based upon the information that you have entered into the tax software.  If you are due an additional amount, it will be issued as a Recovery Rebate Credit (RRC) on line 30 of the 2020 1040 tax return.

If you have e-filed your 2020 Federal tax return and the tax return is accepted by the IRS, you will have to amend your 2020 Federal tax return and correct the entries and calculations to receive the Recovery Rebate Credit.

Amended tax returns will be available March 25.  See forms availability.

If you used TurboTax Online, simply log in to your account and select Amend a return that was filed and accepted.

If you used our CD/download product, sign back into your return and select Amend a filed return.

You must file a separate Form 1040X for each tax return you are amending.

[11991]

for many users - Recovery Rebate Credit IS not appearing in Home and Business Turbo Tax for 1040 individual form.   Calling Help Center only yields a poorly programmed dialectic that is designed to NEVER get you to a human being!

[VolvoGirl]

It's there.  I have Home & Business.  There are several ways to find it.

If you did not get prompted to enter your stimulus information, that means you either:

• filed as a dependent being claimed on another tax return, or 
• have an AGI too high to claim the recovery rebate

To get to the stimulus questions in TurboTax at any time, you can search for stimulus and use the Jump to link.  Generally, if you have adjusted gross income up to $75,000 for individuals and up to $150,000 for married couples filing joint returns and surviving spouses, you will receive the full amount of the recovery rebate.  For filers with income above those amounts, the payment amount is reduced. 

When you go through the federal review tab it will ask how much you got if any.  Enter a 0 in the box if you didn't get one.  Or to enter your stimulus payment in TurboTax, type "stimulus" (without the quotes) in the Search box, then click the link that says "Jump to stimulus."

After you have entered your tax information and are ready for the Federal Review, it will be the first question.

If you are trying to trigger it, you can go to Other Situations, answer any questions and click Done. The next automatic selection is Federal Review and it will ask about payments received.

[11991]

• NOT filed as a dependent being claimed on another tax return, and 
• $500 AGI which is NOT too high to claim the recovery rebate

It is not appearing. As Others have posted. 

I was able to go to the actual 1040 Form and manually add $1800 to line 30, but after saving that entry, the Turbo Tax "Counter" at the top will not recognize the amount.   

Horribly frustrating, indeed. 

[Rita Rieman]

Hi, I've have tried over & over again 2 send 4 my 2020 rebate checks of $1200 $600 & now $1400 but I'm getting nowhere I'm tech stupid 2 SAY the least no unemployment no nothing literally living outta others leftovers broke truck now I can't work broken life & EVERYONE around me that NEVER works gets theirs w/ease  unemployment at the 1000's their stimulas checks & me absolutely nothing I can't get 2 my mom who's not well my son is depressed I'm just tired of all others getting their $ & blowing it at casinos as I sit here month after month w/nothing what in the he'll do I have 2 do 4 this **bleep**? 

[west_view]

The Recovery Rebate Credit or Stimulus Payment questions will only appear if you are eligible for the credit based on the information you’ve provided in TurboTax.To correctly calculate your recovery rebate credit and determine your eligibility, TurboTax will need your income, expense, credit, and deduction information in full.

If your income is above the thresholds mentioned above, or if you don’t qualify for other reasons, you won’t see the question at all. In that situation, since you aren’t eligible, you don’t need to enter any information about your stimulus payment and you don’t need to pay any of it back. Also, it is possible that you may have received one or both of the stimulus payments and still not be eligible for the Recovery Rebate Credit based on your Tax Year 2020 information in this year’s filing. Or if you were claimed as a dependent. 

[Jean43]

Ho where can I find my recovery rebate check how do I know I'm going to receive a cover rebate check have not received the first second or third