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IRS stimulus tax rebate check has arrived
By Daniel | June 20, 2008
Our stimulus tax rebate check has finally arrived and only 4 days late. According to the schedule and the confirmation letter, it stated we should receive our check by June 13th. It arrived on the 17th, and the 13th was actually the day the check was written. While we’re relieved to get it without any issues, there are many people who have received TWO checks or are missing their child rebate. If you want to know when you should receive your check, click here to check out a previous post I wrote on that subject.
For those who have received their stimulus check and it did not include the portion for their eligible child, the IRS will mail out 350,000 additional economic stimulus payments starting in early July. All extra checks will be mailed as a paper check only.
For a few(1,500) people the IRS sent them two checks. Once you know the second check is a mistake, the IRS is requesting that you write void in the endorsement section of the check and mail it back to them with a note that explains the check is erroneous.
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Related Information:
Supplement:
Here are a few more details about our situation with taxes and the stimulus payment. We filed our taxes on April 1st and used Turbo Tax. We owed a little in taxes and had that amount debited from our checking account. Turbo Tax had us fill out a form for the stimulus payment that let us choose to have the check deposited into the same account. As we learned later, that is not how it worked. By owing taxes we were automatically going to get a paper check. We used e-file and paid for the e-file with a credit card. Our taxes were very basic; married - filing jointly, no kids, no mortgage, standard deduction.
On June 9th we received a confirmation letter that stated the amount we would receive by June 13th, and as stated above, it came on June 17th. If you are past your scheduled date and have not received a confirmation letter, start with the economic stimulus payment calculator to verify that you qualify for the stimulus payment. It you do qualify, the next step is to check the online status at the IRS website.(information about your Stimulus Payment will not be available until about one week before your payment is scheduled to be sent.) The final step is to wait 6 weeks(according to the confirmation letter) after your scheduled date and then contact the IRS to inquire about your payment. The information on the IRS website states, “If you don’t receive your refund within 28 days from the original IRS mailing date shown on Where’s My Refund?, you can start a refund trace online.”.
June 20th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Can you share with your readers a few things that might help us gauge how things are working?
1) When did you receive your confirmation letter?
2) When and how did you file your tax return?
I ask because I filed and paid my taxes (on time, by 4/15) by mail (i.e., no refund anticipation loan, no e-file), and requested direct deposit payment. I owed no other money to any tax entity, and I know the IRS received everything because they cashed my check within days of when I mailed it.
When I did not receive a direct deposit payment, I assumed I’d fallen into some category that only gets checks. Fine, but according to the schedule, I should have received my check by June 13th, but I’ve not even received a confirmation letter.
Thanks for your input. (BTW, found you through pfblogs.org)
June 20th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
I have added a supplement to the post that will hopefully answer the questions you had. It can be frustrating. I did not see any special requirements as long as you file your 2007 taxes as you did. I would check the payment calculator and status page.
Thanks, Dan
June 21st, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Dan, thanks for adding your supplemental info–it did, indeed, help. As I filed around 4/14 (before the deadline, but about two weeks after you), I suspect the issues is the IRS’s disposition on the word “processing”, as a CPA-friend notes that the IRS having cashed the check does not indicate one’s return has actually been “processed”.
The IRS stimulus calculator estimated the same dollar amount of the stimulus payment for me that TurboTax had, so that’s done. The IRS web site (and automated phone option) repeatedly yield the “no info” response, indicating that there’s no information available yet for mine.
The phone line does note that for returns not processed by 4/15, checks will not go out for at least 6 weeks after filing (I’m at 10 weeks post-filing now), so I am perpetually at *at least* one week from receiving my check, until I actually receive a confirmation letter; conversely, one could say hey, I’m just five weeks away from being able to contact them and say “OK, what’s up?”
Your dates provided a great data point. Thanks!
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