[Parker]

Originally Posted by Chi-Town

Stimulus checks are going to be delayed several days due to adding Trump's signature.

Saw on the news yesterday that this was entirely untrue 'disinformation'.

[pacjag]

Mine was deposited this morning or last night.

[judyflorida]

yes, got mine today. good surprise

[davefin]

Originally Posted by asianthree

Letter arrived in the mail today, from IRS dated February 17. His 2018 taxes were audited, and found a mistake.

The check was a refund from IRS for their findings. As he said if letter would have come 6 weeks ago, when it was dated, there would not been a guessing game.

So check deposit was legit, however not stimulus.

He said since it’s found money, it’s still going to his employees who are still waiting on unemployment.

His hope is anyone who does not need their stimulus, if you could go to your favorite restaurant and donate to the staff. They have served you well, and even though they would expect nothing, they would be grateful

Still cannot understand why there was withholding on a refund check. Taxes were already paid!

[Jayhawk]

Originally Posted by davefin

Still cannot understand why there was withholding on a refund check. Taxes were already paid!

1. There wasn't any withholding
2. It's not a refund
3. It's a tax credit paid in advance

[Schneil]

deposited last night

[chet2020]

Prev Poster: Stimulus checks are going to be delayed several days due to adding Trump's signature.

Originally Posted by DianeM

Two weeks to those with no direct deposit so a paper check

Not his idea. Treasury Department insisted due to size of plan.

Not right to skew to the negative when it isn’t

This makes no sense. The Treasury Dept is under the gun, why would they make more work themselves?

[davefin]

Originally Posted by Jayhawk

1. There wasn't any withholding
2. It's not a refund
3. It's a tax credit paid in advance

I wasn't referring to the stimulus payment. I was responding to this post that was clarified later as NOT being a stimulus payment. It had 27% FIT withheld. Can not understand why??? Please go back and read the original intent of this post.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by DianeM

No. Your original post implied that the delay was due to Trump wanting his name on the checks. That was the skew.

There IS a delay due to that. It's just a couple extra days, because the final decision on whether or not his name would appear, didn't come until recently and they had to print the checks.

The checks still weren't going to be sent out for another week or two, but now it's another week or two - plus a couple of days.

Meanwhile, the "My Payment" tracker on the irs.gov website says it can't determine whether or not I'm eligible to receive a stimulus check. I don't know why, we fell under the max in 2018 by around $40,000, and in 2019 we fell under it by just around $90,000. So we absolutely qualify.

[John_W]

If you didn't have a checking account on file with the IRS, only filed but never received a refund, then they start mailing checks May 4th at the rate of 5 million per week. Trumps name will appear in the memo stub, that has not delayed the printing at all. However, it may take up to 20 weeks to mail all the checks at this rate.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by John_W

If you didn't have a checking account on file with the IRS, only filed but never received a refund, then they start mailing checks May 4th at the rate of 5 million per week. Trumps name will appear in the memo stub, that has not delayed the printing at all. However, it may take up to 20 weeks to mail all the checks at this rate.

It's not tied to whether or not you got a refund. It's whether or not your bank account info was on file. Our bank account had been on file because we paid the taxes we owed electronically. No refund - payment. But the account info was in the system.

[billethkid]

Originally Posted by John_W

If you didn't have a checking account on file with the IRS, only filed but never received a refund, then they start mailing checks May 4th at the rate of 5 million per week. Trumps name will appear in the memo stub, that has not delayed the printing at all. However, it may take up to 20 weeks to mail all the checks at this rate.

If you are currently collecting SS by direct deposit the stimulus check will be deposited the same way.

[DianeM]

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[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Now I find out we paid by check. But we only owed this past year, and the year before. Every other year before 2018, we got a refund, and the refund was always deposited electronically into our bank account.

But apparently that's not good enough for this stimulus check thing, they'll only go back to 2018. I checked the tool and there's no option to provide deposit information, if you paid tax by check in the past two years. ONLY if you got refunds by check in the past 2 years, or didn't file at all in the past 2 years.

So those of us who actually paid by check - will likely be among the last to see any of this stimulus check. So much for the new screen door. It was a nice thought, anyway. Maybe we'll get one in a few months.

Please see post #73.