Still Waiting For Your IRS Stimulus Check?
If you and your spouse didn't get your IRS stimulus check earlier this year, here's some news: it might be in the mail by the end of the month.
The IRS doled out the tax rebates earlier this year -- up to $600 for eligible singles and up to $1,200 for married couples. But there were many instances where a married woman's name on her tax return didn't match Social Security records, leading the IRS to "inadvertently" omit thousands of married couples from their list of those eligible for the rebate checks, according to its Website. (Our very own Eileen Ambrose covered the problem here at Consuming Interests last month.)
But it looks like the IRS was able to go back and reconcile the records. The government bean counters finally determined that another 260,000 people were eligible to receive the checks. Are you still waiting for yours? Have you pulled your hair out trying to reconcile this with the Feds?
For more information, you'll probably want to check out the IRS's "frequently asked questions" web page dedicated to dealing with the stimulus checks.
The Associated Press was on the case, in terms of following up on the issue with the IRS. If you've been irked by the way this has been handled by the IRS, you probably want to read this article by Jim Salter. Salter reports that people who are due the checks will get a notification letter "within days" and their checks "by the end of the month."
(Photo courtesy of IRS.gov)
Comments
i married a non citizen how come me and my daugther cant receive a check my wife has a ssn # and pay taxes
DD: Rexall, did you try calling the IRS stimulus hotline? 866.234.2942. Good luck.
Posted by: rexall kanuszewski | October 15, 2008 3:56 PM
Yes, we're one of those married couples the Government decided to stick it to.
You work hard all of your life and go by the rules and still it doesn't matter. Makes you want to sit down like other lazy people in America and get everything given to you including your house mortgage.
DD: Charles, so this fix the Treasury is doing right now doesn't include you and our wife?
Posted by: Charles True | October 16, 2008 8:04 PM
I just got $300 dollars , I don't know Why? my exmption is 3 , my s.s# xxx-xx-xxxx
DD: Nowal, you should contact the IRS if you're not sure. To be safe, we deleted your SSN from your comment. Please don't send your confidential numbers to just anyone.
Posted by: Nowal Eldarouti | October 30, 2008 12:15 PM
I haven't received, my Stimulus check
yet, what is the delay? My husband
Ronald Patterson, hasn't received his check either.
DD: Patricia, did you check to see if your check was undeliverable?
Posted by: PATRICIA ANN PATTERSON | October 31, 2008 1:40 PM
I filed as head of Household and have a dependent son.I was supposed to receive $600. MY son also filed and received $300. This was an error but the IRS said he did not have to repay as it would be deducted from mine. Can you give me information as to the status of balance of $300.
Thanks
DD: Doris, We'd love to help you, but only the IRS would be able to answer this question for you. Good luck.
Posted by: Doris | November 18, 2008 3:08 PM
Are we required to pay back the stimulus money that we reciver last year.
Definitely not, Brenda --- and you don't have to report the tax rebate as income on your tax return, Eileen says. -- lfk.
Posted by: Brenda | February 2, 2009 3:52 PM
I have not received my stimulas check yet has it been
sent out already? How much will I be getting.
Posted by: Grace Rosales | May 1, 2009 8:29 AM