Incarcerated Felons don't have rights and don't file taxes.
all they need is an SSN and felons can get that
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Generally, you’re eligible to claim the recovery rebate credit if, in 2020, you:
- Were a U.S. citizen or U.S. resident alien;
- Can’t be claimed as a dependent on another person’s tax return; and
- Have a Social Security number valid for employment that’s issued before the due date of your 2020 tax return (including extensions)
Let's go one step further. The checks under Rump were modified so that Felons serving MIGHT be able to receive those checks. Let's hope that Biden doesn't do the same. Here is the law on SSI and Disability for incarcerated Prisoners. Also see
Scholl v. Mnuchin
What Prisoners Need To Know
Rarely will Incarcerated Prisoners be able to receive SSI or Disability payment during the time of their incarceration.
CARES ACT STIMULUS PAYMENTSFOR PEOPLE IN JAIL OR PRISON (October2020)
In March 2020, the U.S. Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”). The Act provides a stimulus tax credit for eligible people, andinstructs the IRS to issue stimulus checksto eligible individuals as soonas possible.However, the IRS took the position that incarceratedpeopleare not eligible for stimulus payments. On September 24, 2020, a federal court ruled that the IRS’s position was likely unlawful. The case is Scholl v. Mnuchin, No. 4:20-cv-5309-PJH (N.D. Cal.). The court ordered the IRS to stop denying payments to people solely because they are incarceratedand to make payments to people who were previously denied because they were incarcerated.Be aware that this rulingmay bestayed or reversed on appeal, or that Congress could act to exclude incarcerated people from receiving stimuluspayments
This dealt with the 1200 and the 600 dollar checks. The rules are still being made for this next one. The IRS may, once again attempt to block some Prisoners from receiving it. But you would have to have had income (other than making license plates) for the 2020 year to qualify. Yah, I know, the Legal Beagles are having a ball on this one.
Scholl v. Mnuchin only rules that the IRS cannot deny the payment of the Cares Funds to a currently serving felon due to his being a serving felon. But they can deny it on the grounds that the prisoner is paying zero taxes and it's legal to withhold the payment.