Did anyone who was NOT expecting a stimulus check receive one?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If it phases out for high incomes, it should also phase out the kid payments (and I say this as someone with two kids, who will just barely be missing out on the payment because our AGI for 2019 was slightly over the threshold — we would have gotten about $2,000 if we hadn’t already filed and used 2018 figures, according to an online calculator I found). Why would they be sending money out for dependents whose parents make enough not to qualify otherwise?

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It does phase out the kid payments.

It's so hilarious how people are bitching about not getting the stimulus while billions of dollars are being handed to corporations for free.

Isn't that actually more reason to bitch?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If it phases out for high incomes, it should also phase out the kid payments (and I say this as someone with two kids, who will just barely be missing out on the payment because our AGI for 2019 was slightly over the threshold — we would have gotten about $2,000 if we hadn’t already filed and used 2018 figures, according to an online calculator I found). Why would they be sending money out for dependents whose parents make enough not to qualify otherwise?

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It does phase out the kid payments.

It's so hilarious how people are bitching about not getting the stimulus while billions of dollars are being handed to corporations for free.

Isn't that actually more reason to bitch?

How about proportional bitching? Now we are done bitching about the unfairness of the individual stimulus checks and now have to complain about the corporate aspects for 2 million years?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The direct deposit is in my account though it's dated for the 15th.
Both my husband and I received one (me for $1700 and him for $1800), though we both made over 100k in 2018. We have not yet filed for 2019.
We have two children and we each claim one each. We file married/single.
I'm so confused, but I admittedly do not understand taxes much at all.

Awesone!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If it phases out for high incomes, it should also phase out the kid payments (and I say this as someone with two kids, who will just barely be missing out on the payment because our AGI for 2019 was slightly over the threshold — we would have gotten about $2,000 if we hadn’t already filed and used 2018 figures, according to an online calculator I found). Why would they be sending money out for dependents whose parents make enough not to qualify otherwise?

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It does phase out the kid payments.

It's so hilarious how people are bitching about not getting the stimulus while billions of dollars are being handed to corporations for free.

I wasn’t bitching about not getting the payment. I was saying I shouldn’t get any of it, because it sounded like some people around my income were getting checks mostly because they qualified for the money for dependents. Glad that isn’t true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought the checks were supposed to start with the people who have the lowest incomes. Is that only for people getting actual checks vs direct deposit?

On the other thread about this, people with incomes of $150K+ are getting checks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought the checks were supposed to start with the people who have the lowest incomes. Is that only for people getting actual checks vs direct deposit?

That's only for being who aren't getting direct deposit. Those physical checks will be sent in the mail in waves - I heard they'll send out 5,000 physical checks a week which is why its tiered by income.

Gosh, there's 68 million Americans without bank accounts. . . people on Social Security with no bank accounts have debit cards, and people receiving cash assisance get cards (not many of those anymore), but seems like there's probably a lot of paper checks to be mailed out. Just half a million at that rate would take 2 years.

I have a joint account with my DS for some practical reasons. There's a $1200 pending transaction in there, not sure whose it is--we both get federal CRP (agricultural) deposits to that account so based on that it could be either of us, I don't use that account when I submit payment with income tax filing and I don't think DS has used it--but why just one of us?

[Anonymous]

I got $100 so now I can't gripe about the whole stimulus and can claim I'm not rich.

[Anonymous]

If you generally owe taxes and pay electronically, can the IRS process us in the electronic transfer group? Or are we not in the "direct deposit on file with the IRS group"?

Does anyone happen to know?

[Anonymous]

We had a combined HH income of something like $210k and have two kids, married filing jointly. I have to double check my income as I was on FMLA for like two months. But there is a deposit for $2500 into our account. I am afraid to use it, this must be a mistake?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought the checks were supposed to start with the people who have the lowest incomes. Is that only for people getting actual checks vs direct deposit?

That's only for being who aren't getting direct deposit. Those physical checks will be sent in the mail in waves - I heard they'll send out 5,000 physical checks a week which is why its tiered by income.

Gosh, there's 68 million Americans without bank accounts. . . people on Social Security with no bank accounts have debit cards, and people receiving cash assisance get cards (not many of those anymore), but seems like there's probably a lot of paper checks to be mailed out. Just half a million at that rate would take 2 years.

I have a joint account with my DS for some practical reasons. There's a $1200 pending transaction in there, not sure whose it is--we both get federal CRP (agricultural) deposits to that account so based on that it could be either of us, I don't use that account when I submit payment with income tax filing and I don't think DS has used it--but why just one of us?

PP above already corrected this to 5 million a week.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know if SS recipients have begun getting deposits?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.kiplinger.com/article/taxes/T056-C032-S014-filing-taxes-early-cost-me-my-stimulus-check.html

This is what happened to me too. Filed 2019 taxes in February back before this all blew up and rendered myself ineligible for a stimulus check. Now that you don’t have to pay it back and it’s “free” money (even though it’s obviously costing people like me in the long term) it’s definitely frustrating that doing the right thing and getting my taxes in well before the filing deadline cost me. Yeah, $1200 or $2400 isn’t significant, but it’s still money. Annoying, for sure.

This is what happened to us I expect. Not certain yet, as payments continue today.

[Anonymous]

192 dollars! I guess our retirement contributions got us right under.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had a combined HH income of something like $210k and have two kids, married filing jointly. I have to double check my income as I was on FMLA for like two months. But there is a deposit for $2500 into our account. I am afraid to use it, this must be a mistake?

We’re very similar—we’d already filed for last year and made around $190k, have two kids, and got a $2700 deposit. I didn’t check our tax return to see what they counted as our income for the year but I’m guessing retirement contributions and maybe student loan payments got us under the threshold.

[Anonymous]

Everything I read said the extra $500 for dependents was for kids until 17. Mine is almost 18, but I got the extra dependent money.