paper stimulus check

Reply #22

Stack47 — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 17:11:27 GMT

When the money was first distributed, the IRS website did a terrible job explaining how it would be done. Most SS payments are direct deposit and the site made it look like that is how the stimulus would be paid to people on SS. There is talk of another payment and hopefully they will do a better with it.

Reply #21

Dee88 — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 14:17:40 GMT

Yep!!! I always go through my mail and if it's junk mail I toss it in the trash... I get alot of checks that look like they are real but they aren't they need to stop with this junk mail especially when it comes to senior citizens. They get confused sometimes..

Reply #20

grwurston — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 23:04:06 GMT

I had a friend who got a debit card, didn't realize what it was because they were expecting a paper check and cut it up. They eventually got a new one.

Read your mail thoroughly

Reply #19

ponymaker$ — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 20:08:51 GMT

You are right Stack47, I get SS, and owe zero in federal taxes, and my stimulus check was mailed to me.

Reply #18

Ronnbee — Wed, 27 May 2020 09:31:49 GMT

DEBIT CARD--arrived (dont know if like that

Reply #17

Dee88 — Fri, 15 May 2020 00:50:51 GMT

YAY!!! nice to hear another happy person got their check... now don't spend it all at once.. lol

Reply #16

Cmoore50 — Fri, 15 May 2020 00:14:00 GMT

Got my check in the mail today...

Reply #15

LiveInGreenBay — Fri, 15 May 2020 00:08:16 GMT

Thanks Stack, I didn't know that.

Reply #14

Stack47 — Thu, 14 May 2020 23:49:50 GMT

The stimulus payments are tax free according the CARES Act. And because it won't appear on your 1040, there is no state tax either.

Reply #13

Dee88 — Thu, 14 May 2020 23:12:49 GMT

I have Direct Deposit and I don't understand why everyone doesn't have it.. It beats worrying about if your check will get to you in the mail.. I know the mail system is not the best source to rely on all the times.. With the Direct Deposit you don't have to be bothered with going to the bank it's already there.. Best way to go...

Reply #12

LiveInGreenBay — Thu, 14 May 2020 23:10:42 GMT

That money is considered income so the IRS will tax you on it next year.

Reply #11

Stack47 — Thu, 14 May 2020 21:37:53 GMT

Got a paper check even though my state tax refund was direct deposited. From what I've read, direct depositing the stimulus checks only applied to the people direct depositing their refund checks. Many people getting SS owe zero in Federal taxes, got no refund and they were sent a paper check.

Payment dates go from low to high incomes and I believe the payments tomorrow will be for incomes over $50,000 ($100,000 for joint filers) but under $75,000 ($150,000).

Reply #10

Stack47 — Thu, 14 May 2020 21:26:12 GMT

Can't find the date of the last time SS was fully funded, but now it's pay as they go . With all the unemployment because of the virus, SS is probably paying much more out than they are taking in. Don't know if SS is now deducted from unemployment checks, but know it wasn't 20 years ago.

About 61 million Americans are on SS and can't find the direct deposit to paper checks ratio, SS suggests direct deposit. I know what you're saying about sending back the checks , but believe that applies th... [ More ]

Reply #9

Ronnbee — Thu, 14 May 2020 09:21:22 GMT

did you get your stimulus check ? or direct deposit

Reply #8

Dee88 — Wed, 13 May 2020 22:43:41 GMT

I don't know if you would consider it a law or not, but from my experiences when a relative passes the Funeral Director is the one that contacts SS. they are the ones that deal with the decease's remains.. They have to issue a Death Certificate and they send it to SS and than SS should contact IRS about the person.. so it looks like IRS is not updating their system.. As for the lawyer they really only deal with the will if there is one and the estate..

The problem I have with SS is if you ge... [ More ]

Reply #7

Stack47 — Wed, 13 May 2020 18:43:08 GMT

Read a discussion where some people believe the number of COVID-19 deaths include all death, but someone pointed out on average there are 7500 U.S. deaths every day. I'm not interested in mortality statistics and don't know if 77,000 unreported SS deaths in two years is high or not, but can't find any law requiring relatives to report deaths to SS and the IRS. If there is a will, executors usually report along with their other duties.

And probably a very bad idea to cash a deceased family me... [ More ]

Reply #6

brees2012 — Tue, 12 May 2020 20:32:02 GMT

Wow! Never sign a decease check. He will have to write a check to IRS and explaining to them,

why he did it .

Reply #5

Dee88 — Tue, 12 May 2020 16:17:34 GMT

When a person dies you are suppose to notify SS and they tell IRS and IRS should make the change and take them out of the system. Also if you die and got a SS check that month you have to give it back. The man they interviewed on the news got a check for his mother and it showed her name and also showed deceased on the check. He has to send the check back but there's one problem he cashed the check. Lol

Reply #4

Stack47 — Tue, 12 May 2020 15:12:11 GMT

Direct deposit was mostly for people that used it to get a refund for the 2018 and 2019 tax year. The paper checks were sent to the people that owed taxes for one or both of those tax years. Lots of people on SS pay nothing in taxes so they don't get a refund and apparently the IRS didn't get the banking account info from the Social Security Administration. The states administer SSI so those people will probably get a paper check too.

Just wondering because I never had to do it, but does an e... [ More ]

Reply #3

Unlucky-Kenny — Tue, 12 May 2020 15:04:27 GMT

77,000 x $1200 (not including anyone who would have gotten the $500 per kid) = $92,400,000

I wonder how much of those got direct deposited if the bank accounts never got closed out yet

Reply #2

Dee88 — Tue, 12 May 2020 14:43:36 GMT

My sister just got her check in the mail .. and what's weird about it is she is on SS and she should have had it sooner than this.. and she has direct deposit so why she got a check and not put in her account I don't know why.. Even people that were deceased were getting checks in the mail.. they said there were 77,000 people deceased in the IRS system and they got checks.. something wrong with this picture.. sounds like to me IRS needs to clean out there files..

Reply #1

Karen Nathan — Tue, 12 May 2020 10:48:05 GMT

I got a paper check, most likely because the Bank Account I did my 2018 tax Return in is closed now.

paper stimulus check

Ronnbee — Tue, 12 May 2020 09:38:28 GMT

dont know anybody that received paper check in mail--just direct deposit---know anyone that received paper check