Comments on: Stimulus payments – a braggy uncoordinated mess?

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:39:04 +0000

Marty- how frustrating! If you claimed his as a dependent, he’s not going to get a stimulus payment. From the IRS web site, he is eligible if “You are not a dependent or eligible to be a dependent on someone else’s federal tax return. (The same must be true of any family members claimed on your return.)”

Furthermore, it appears that someone who is 20 years old is too old for him to have increased your stimulus payment by $300, which he would have done had he been, say 15.

You can always find out more at the IRS web site’s economic stimulus section.

By: Marty

Marty — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:06:57 +0000

Well here it is October 31st and my son still has not received his stimulus check. I’m so confused about it because when I read up on the information on how to receive one it says although we claimed him He is 20 so we really didn’t get the child tax credit he should still be eligible for one? But we can not find out anything on his check? I just wish I could find out because he is always asking why he never received one and I just don’t know what to tell him? If anyone out there can help me please do so !! THANK YOU !!!

By: Sherry Kelley

Sherry Kelley — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:58:34 +0000

We still haven’t gotten our 1200, they sure cashed our check, which we borrowed to pay them almost 2000 in March! We were told the check was cashed, but they just were too busy to process our return, so…as they chuckled, who knows, we’ll get it. Okay, We waited, called again, they can’t find our return now. But, they do know we paid, oh well, send a copy, mention both people you talked to and their “code #’s” and include copy of canceled check, we’ll process it, can’t say when tho. Well, that was the last week in July. Now, a month later, still nothing!! I have oh so little faith, my congresswoman won’t write back to me when I asked her what the heck this mess is all about!

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:29:23 +0000

Wow, that’s a lot of ugliness. This is one of those areas where, if you think you’re entitled to it, make sure to follow-up. Six-hundred bucks (or possibly a heck of a lot more) is too much to allow to disappear due to disorganization (or worse) on the part of the government.

By: Christine Pierson

Christine Pierson — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:38:54 +0000

I never received the stimulus payment. Although I did receive several announcements such as; was on the way through direct deposit, then another saying a check would be mailed, then another saying the payment had been applied to taxes I owed. Never put all of your eggs in one basket!

By: Monica

Monica — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:36:10 +0000

We got our stimulus check at the beginning of June. I was actually impressed that they got it out so fast. However, because our oldest son was not born in this country, and therefore had an [assigned] tax id # instead, he was not included on the stimulus check. This, I thought, was a con as we still have to pay anything to do with him, we have to claim him as a dependent, why on earth would he not be counted as a child for whom we should get a stimulus payment?? My accountant, who really should have been on the ball about this and told me to go out and get my son a SSN so that we could get that payment, reckons we’ll get that money next year. And I think I just saw a pig flying by my window.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:14:05 +0000

Definitely received several announcements that the check would be coming, on bright, shiny paper with official-looking seals. Then I watched as my friends’ checks came in one by one, and I received still more announcements. The actual check finally arrived last week. I almost ripped it up assuming it was yet another announcement. Which goes to show that one should never make assumptions with the IRS

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:25:05 +0000

My story is not very dramatic luckily! We didn’t receive anything from the government about the rebate check..until we went away last month for two weeks. Of course, during this time the letter informing us that the check was arriving came, followed by the check a few days later. Which was funny to us because we, upon our return, opened them within minutes of each other. So painless. My sister in CA has not received hers and neither have my parents in NH..however, my other sister who is working abroad has received hers. We guessed that it has partially to do with when you file as I filed in early March and the rest of the “fam” filed early April. No MA congressperson has laid claim to being behind the check but I gotta wonder how much paper and postage is being wasted with all these letters!