Re: Recovery Stimulus credit

my uncle is deceased and is getting the stimulus credit should he. I had to return the actual stimulus check because they said he was deceased before it was issued.

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Yes, your uncle should get the Recovery Rebate Credit. Per the IRS, a payment won’t be issued to someone who has died before January 1, 2020. However, eligible individuals who died in 2020, should claim the Recovery Rebate Credit their 2020 tax return.

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The IRS‘s actions here make no sense as I have been saying all along. There is nothing in the law that prevents payments to a deceased person and everything in the law that says that a person who is deceased after January 1, 2020, and who will be filing a final tax return for 2020, will be an eligible taxpayer for the recovery rebate. There was never justification that I could see for the IRS to have made the administrative decision that deceased persons were not eligible for the early payments.