diff --git a/lib/ModelingToolkitTearing/Project.toml b/lib/ModelingToolkitTearing/Project.toml
index 675de68..1522c58 100644
--- a/lib/ModelingToolkitTearing/Project.toml
+++ b/lib/ModelingToolkitTearing/Project.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 name = "ModelingToolkitTearing"
 uuid = "6bb917b9-1269-42b9-9f7c-b0dca72083ab"
-version = "1.20.5"
+version = "1.20.6"
 authors = ["Aayush Sabharwal <aayush.sabharwal@juliahub.com>"]
 
 [deps]
diff --git a/lib/ModelingToolkitTearing/src/tearingstate.jl b/lib/ModelingToolkitTearing/src/tearingstate.jl
index 7fcf295..1f44b43 100644
--- a/lib/ModelingToolkitTearing/src/tearingstate.jl
+++ b/lib/ModelingToolkitTearing/src/tearingstate.jl
@@ -913,6 +913,12 @@ function collect_vars_to_set!(buffer::Set{SymbolicT}, vars::Vector{SymbolicT})
             BSImpl.Term(; f, args) && if f === getindex end => push!(buffer, args[1])
             _ => nothing
         end
+        if Symbolics.issymstruct(x) #symstruct case
+            for leaf in collect(Symbolics.SymStruct{SU.symtype(x)}(x))::Vector{SymbolicT}
+                push!(buffer, leaf)
+            end
+            continue
+        end
         sh = SU.shape(x)
         sh isa SU.Unknown && continue
         sh = sh::SU.ShapeVecT