Stimulus payments for dependent of divorced parents

[JimnBeck]

child of divorced parent claimed (legally) on non-custodial parent (father) 2019 tax return and he got both stimulus payments of $500 and $600. In 2020, the custodial parent gets to claim the same child so will she be able to collect the same two stimulus payments for the same child on her 2020 tax return?

[IRonMaN]

For pretty much the first time ever, 2020 allows for double dipping.  What a screwy year.

[garman22]

Screwy indeed!!! 

[BobKamman]

Congress passed and the President signed a law that said if you claimed a kid for at least one out of two years, you got some money.  What's screwy about that?  

Try thinking out of the calendar-year box.  

[IRonMaN]

But I like to stay in that box - it's safe and warm.

[BobKamman]

It must be chilling to think of someone who got money for Johnny, age 22, because he was a student for four months and a day in 2019 -- and then Johnny qualifies for RR credit on his own 2020 return, when he made $75K with his engineering degree.

Why do people think the EIP's were for the kid?  Did someone see checks made out to the kids?  Anyone? Mr. Bueller?  No, I didn't think so.  The checks went to the adults.  Some of them needed the money more than others, but they all had the option of sending it back.  

[TAXOH]

Nobody would have received money for Johnny if they had claimed him as a dependent because he was over 16.

[BobKamman · Accepted solution]

IRS made a mistake.  They admitted it -- you must have been in the bathroom.