The primary purpose of the total bill is to provide liquidity, income support for individuals is secondary

The privileged tone of the OP makes me cringe.
Isn't it good that we will be able to help local small businesses by spending the check.

I volunteer at an organization that hears stories of widows or widowers who live on minimal social security. They are in poverty and barely getting by. $1200 will be life changing for them. If you don’t need your $1200 let me know and I will help direct you to some people who desperately need it.

Because the Democrats want their votes

If you really don’t need the $$$. Then save it and spend it at local business establishments when they reopen to support them. ☺️

Being the OP on this topic, I can tell you that our gross income for 2019 was under 45K. That is for a married couple. And you can't spend money at a local business if they are closed.

Our leader is taking credit for this whole thing.

Stimulus checkj
 

You are free to donate your check to a charitable organization.

An excellent idea! :thumbup:



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Look on the bright side, if you qualify for a check you can post a video on youtube giving benjamins out at Publix :clap2:

our ss is so low we don't even file a return. our medical bills are so that we could use this money to pay some of them.

It's not a "payment." It's not a work bonus. It's stimulus money. The point is to SPEND it. Hopefully you don't "need" it. But if you do, it'll help pay a bill or two. If you don't need it, THAT IS AWESOME! SPEND IT! Spend it on people who DO need it. Spend it on restaurants and supermarkets that are struggling because their employees are being laid off, reduced hours, having to work overtime when they're only part-time employees, just flat out need a bonus for the major butt-kicking they're receiving right now.

Give $1200 cash to the guy who delivers your gourmet dinner the week after the deposit arrives in your account, as a tip.

That's what this is FOR. It is for two things only:

1) for people who need it, to relieve some of that need.
2) for people who don't need it, to spend at places they want to see kept in business.

You solved the issue of wondering what to do with the money in your first sentence, and then decided on a different solution. Seems pretty illogical and roundabout.

Why not give it to those people who rely on tips? Buy something from someone who relies on tips - and TIP them. Delivery people rely on tips. You can splurge on take-out every single day for a month, AND tip incredibly well in the process, use up every cent of that stimulus money, and still have enough left over for gas in the car when the virus has run its course and the country is back up and running again.

If fighting this virus is a war, we need to realize that time is more important than money. One of the expectations of government is to protect the people. If they had to take the time to ask or calculate who wants or needs the money, it would take a year. As a result of their quick action, the money will get to those who need it as well as to a percentage of those who do not. When the country is open for normal commerce again, spend it to help those hurt by the shutdown, pay off a debt, give it to a charity, or save it for a rainy day. There are many decisions made during war that are made to win the war, not to see that all is fair and even. Have you ever seen war videos of our troops pushing perfectly good helicopters off the deck of an aircraft carrier and into the ocean because the pilots and mechanics were being sent home to their families and there was no inexpensive way to get the equipment back to the states?

Hey CNM let me know when you get the check - I'll give you my schedule so you can slip me one of those benjamins while I'm bagging your groceries!

Payment is to stimulate the economy.

But with a large majority of 'goods' imported, whose economy is being stimulated the most?

Online ordering? Buy a gift card?
Maybe stores will open again?

Pay it Forward to our waiters that tack care of us that basically live of the TIPS they like i`am going to do when i get the money.....

because you are a u s retiree

Nothing to prevent you from giving it to Salvation Army or those in need. In this crisis our minds need to be on solutions.

Bingo!
I don’t have a good pension or my wife.
Don’t want your money send it to me and I will put it towards my mortgage.
Have a lot of things I could use it for to buy and stimulate the economy.
I say
Thank you mr government for the gift
I only worked 45 years and paid taxes every year I worked
I will look at it as a rebate 😎

Exactly ! :boom:

so donate your $1200 check to a local food bank

think outside the box

Sending good wishes your way, that your situation will change for the better...very soon.


Good luck. :)



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The point is that this virus has not changed your financial situation. The relief was supposed to assist those whose monthly incomes have been affected...

I love the idea of people who are getting checks that are doing fine without it, donate to a needy cause. Excellent idea

I believe those that are affected will also receive the $1,200 check, PLUS 100% pay they were making at their job from the unemployment office every week...

Then maybe you should just accept it and give it to someone that needs it. Or maybe give it to your favorite politician so they can add it to their stimulus package raise.

I would suggest that you donate your check to someone who is laid off since you don’t seem to understand why the checks are being issued.

Yes. This is supposed to be a covid crisis assistance bill. Any money's having nothing to do with the effects of the virus across the spectrum should not have been included, i.e. libraries, planned parenthood, PBS radio, etc. $2 trillion? This money is corrupted and is definitely not "free". It is wasteful and in some cases fraudulent spending by those we elected to be trusted stewards of our hard earned dollars

You will only get a check if you make under $75,000 a year. It’s my understanding that this will be based on the 2018 return unless you have already filed the 2019.

The checks are being issued to everyone so when we are over this crisis, you go out and spend them to stimulate the economy. That’s why people who are earning up to $75000 per year are getting checks for the full amount.

Trust it will go to a good cause at least in our house!

MANY Retired people in The Villages are still working part-time for financial reasons but currently furloughed, and MANY Retired people outside of our paradise barely survive on their SS. People in either situation will appreciate the reprieve of additional funds. And the money will be spent ... further stimulating the economy to rebound. If you receive the funds and don't need them, then feel blessed and donate them....PLENTY of options for that! Honestly not a dumb plan. (But I do agree......$ to the Kennedy Center .... dumb plan!)

I will send my check back right after big business sends theirs back

For those on a low income SS, it will be helpful to many to pay the Villages the CDD fee FOR NON USE OF THE SPORTS FACILITIES they are still going to charge us for...... they could use this time to get the REPAIRS done to ALL these facilities. Some of the complexes at Softball, the stands, toilets, and the courts at Pickleball are filthy and disgusting. Trolleys that had water dispensers were shameful, and needed disinfecting before, more so now, not cleaned for months. No wonder we have a virus. the further down the Villages, builds in Sumter, the more the older places get forgotten with maintenance.............. Been here 12.5 years.. trust me....

Retires getting checks
 

Many retirees have a hard time living with their SS checks and can use the money. If you don't need it then donate it to someone who does. Like the local restaurant workers or soap kitchens.

You can 1) return it to the government, 2) give it to a charity, 3) give it to someone you know who needs it, 4) go to go fund me.com and send it to someone whose cause you support, 5) order take-out and delivery and each time give the worker a very good tip.

No one said you have to keep it if you don’t need it. You decide how you can help your community with it. The retirees who can sure use it, are very grateful for it.