Thread: Got my stimulus check

We’re raising two of our grandkids, so I can always put extra money to work. I just hate that it’s being taken from them in the first place. The national debt WILL matter eventually. Debt is not good, whether it’s government, commercial or personal. It’s like our government has turned into the biggest payday loan shark there is.


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I think that's part of the reason why crypto currencies are going bananas right now.

First, would one of the mods please move this thread somewhere else beside https://www.tsptalk.com/mb/market-no...stimulus-check Makes it hard to find. Market notables? All due respect to the OP of course😊.

I got my economic impact payment today. Don’t know how much yet, explanation will follow, probably after/with a rant.

I was going to post something earlier about wondering if everyone got an ACH deposit in to bank accounts. I did not back in May and I briefly wondered why as IRS has had my bank account info for 20 years and has successfully debited/credited the account for fed tax purposes. I chocked it up to being the efficiency of .gov. In May I got a paper check. Today I got something called an EIP card. I almost threw it out as it looks just like more junk mail or yet another scam.

From IRS.gov: “EIP Cards are sponsored by the Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service, managed by Money Network Financial, LLC and issued by Treasury’s financial agent, MetaBank®, N.A.”

Now I have to activate the card and give yet another financial institution more personal information plus my bank account information. Then probably pay an atm fee. I could break the entry of bank account information I suppose by withdrawing it in cash at a different bank. Wouldn’t matter, the Treasury’s financial agent, Metabank already has that. What a f***ing PITA. I am pretty sure when I activate the card I will be asked for my SSAN.

I agree with other posters here that this is a stupid program the way it is being managed. Most who post/read this MB do not need the money. Many people who have been unemployed for months do.

Yeah, I got my stimulus payment today.

PO

My daughters family got their stimulus check.
They can use it. My daughter is an interior designer and her boss fired her in October last year saying the company was going in a different direction. Of course he kept the women he hired two months earlier that my daughter trained. She also believes the other women was making more than her. My daughter has worked for the company for over 7 years with no problems. Did I mention that when she was fired she was 7 months pregnant.
I haven't seen my check yet. If I get one we will figure out what charity to donate it to.

I only got $200, I gave it to my gf who works in the tourism industry and has been furloughed for most of 2020.

I got a letter from IRS today saying dated 1 Mar 21 telling me my EIP2 payment has been issued. No ****, like 8 Jan. What is the matter with this agency? Are they just in to wasting money? Does it mean they are going to issue it twice?

PO

I got a letter today concerning the check in February advising that if I had not received the deposit within 5 days to check on it. A little bit late with that one, I’d say.


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Never got a second stimulus and don't expect a third.

For whatever it is worth I got my economic impact payment 3 today. This time it was a direct deposit from IRS instead of a debit card.

I still feel this thread should be moved, perhaps to taxes and insurance.

PO

I only got one stimulus check. Hummmm.... need to find out about number 2 . IRS has really been messing up. There were times last year where they would just not answer the phone at all....using the number they gave me to call. and during audit they tried to take a $2500 credit away from me (because they can't count and can't look back at prior year returns to see how many years credit was actually taken) and then replaced it with $500 earned income credit????? what???? I called and was on hold for an hour with that horrible music, transferred to two different departments with about 45 minutes on each hold. Finally got through, and said they would notate comments. Weeks later receive a letter where they closed it with no changes...lol....

Thank you for posting this. I have been calling IRS since last week. I called and got pre-screened and told them that I had received my first EIP Card a year ago just fine. I wanted to know why I had not received my EIP2 payment of $600 because GET MY PAYMENT said that they had scheduled my payment for mailing out Jan 6th 2021. They handed me off to someone who could check on the payment but they immediately said to call back later because they were inundated. IRS GET MY PAYMENT was offline over the weekend while they shifted to the new give away of $1400. They did say that people who received a 1440B statement and had a mail date of 1/6/2021 would get a payment by check or debit card. My 1440 B was sent in early February. So, I still think I will get something eventually but the IRS is totally overwelled which is why they have brought back the date that filing taxes is due. Thanks again :-)