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Where's Your Economic Stimulus Check?
However my liberal friends and I may have tsk'd the Bush administration for claiming that $600 checks would save America, we broke liberals sure were excited to get our hands on that money. Congress passed the Economic Stimulus Act in February, giving the IRS a couple months to get payments to some 130 million taxpayers when it was already in the middle of filing season, and giving some 130 millions taxpayers reason to start freaking out about when—when?!—they were going to get their supplement. Thus, I wasn't shocked when I called to do just that and a recording told me that the IRS is currently experiencing heavy call volume and led me though an automated menu that ultimately told me to keep my pants on for three more weeks, and hung up. I had to wonder: How bad must the ESA suck for the IRS?
Pretty bad, according to testimony of national taxpayer advocate Nina E. Olson before the House last week. The IRS hauled ass to develop new programming code, create new pages and a stimulus calculator on its website, mail notices to more than 100 million taxpayers, mail information packages to 20 million more, develop outreach initiatives for seniors, and staff 700 walk-in sites in a "Super Saturday" assistance bonanza. By the first week of June, the IRS had received 27.7 million calls concerning economic stimulus payments. For that same week, call attempts were up 279 percent versus the same period last year. The level of service on the economic stimulus hotline was 30 percent. To deal, the IRS has shifted so many employees from account management and collections that collections will be reduced by $565 million.
Olson worried about the effects of delays and exceptions on taxpayers in her testimony, but admitted that, overall, the IRS is doing a pretty amazing job. Only 1,500 economic stimulus checks have been transmitted in the wrong bank account. About 350,000 people didn't get the additional funds for their dependents. About 20 million taxpayers who purchased refund anticipation loans or checks will get their checks tardily. Even those errors, the IRS says, will be rectified by mid-July. According to the IRS Web schedule, my check would be "mailed no later than (and received a few days after)" May 16. The agency sent me a letter on June 9 saying that I could expect to receive it by June 13. I called fruitlessly a few days after that, and my check came shortly after. So where's your check? It's probably coming. Keep your pants on for three more weeks.
I got my check.
I'll use it to help get me through the worst economic times I've ever seen. This is like 1975 except with 2 wars thrown in and stagflation instead of inflation.
But don't worry, it will be soon to follow. It has to... the dollar is losing value daily and transportation costs are driving prices for everything up through the roof.
-Wexler
The stimulus checks were a bad idea to begin with. The government had to borrow the money to pay for them, and checks to taxpayers are a sub-optimal way to provide short-term stimulus to the economy (better would have been using the money to do a combination of unemployment benefits extensions and public works).
As is, the US is going (deeper) into hoc to send free money to people, many of whom do not need it. To all of you out there for whom the stimulus is really necessary, I'm glad you are getting it, but I dearly wish the government had been a lot smarter about this.
What's the latest on Harriette Walters and her gang?
My "stimulus" check will go to pay my property taxes.
This is nothing but a forced loan on the American Public to be paid back with interest on our daily increasing National Debt. It's like giving a gambler more money to play with. At some point we will have to pay back all these loans.
Tho I thought it was a dumb idea, I sure could use the money. BUT WHERE IS IT? I just paid local taxes and realized I haven't received my fed rebate. And I didn't file late. Hmmmmm
The "stimulus checks" are another gimmick--but I wil say one thing. It REALLY sucks that alot of the veterans I work with, who have "personality disorders" (God forbid PTSD!Then we'd have to pay them disability, which is enough to meagerly live on--these are Viet vets--they've been doing it ever since), and are on "indigent pay" (ABOUT $900 A MO. IN oHIO!)were sent papers to file taxes this year to specifically get their "rebate", and NONE of them have showed up. The hotline is useless, so is the website. This is a shameful mess indeed, and i'd better start hearing a little out of St. Obama about the truly impoverished, or i'm going to writein Cynthia McKinney!
I believe Bush didn't borrow enough money to pay out all the Stimulus checks, so he's waiting until Iran is bombed, either by his regime, or Israel, to gain control of the oil, make his money from it, to pay the rest.
Our check was also due to arrive on May 16th. I called the IRS at the end of May and all I got was automated answers. First call answer, we do not have a valid social security number (so wrong). Second call answer, we have no record of you (but you kept our check for taxes). Third call answer, because you filed late (middle of February) you will not receive your stimulus check until July 11th or after. Oh well, we never got that $300. tax rebate years ago either. Don't you just love Bush's privitized government agencies, I can't wait until they privitize the maintainance on Air Force One!
Throw a little money at them and then make policy benefiting the Big Boys who support you. It works every time. Why else would Obama oppose caps on consumer deb? Dare call him a
faker and you'll be called a racist. Ask Ralph Nader.
Since I'm an old WW2 handicapped veteran, still waiting for my 3 bills, suppose I have the misfortune to meet my maker, will the money have to be returned? Like they require SS payments?
Well it's already been spent driving down to the VA for treatment.
There is one group of people that Congress forgot about when they did this thing. People who have been injured on the job, and whose only income is from workers' compensation insurance.
No 'valid' income. No stimulus check. Sucks!
Well, I still haven't received my check. So I guess I'm being kept from helping the economy! Now, what good is that gonna do?
I'll be sending most of my check to Obama.
I found out that a coworker got theirs on June 28 and their number ends in 83. The schedule says they should have got that on July 4th. Mine ends in 90, I wonder when I will get it, if at all.
July 1
I got a letter saying that I would get $300 (what happened to $600?) sometime this month. It sure is a tempting thought to pay them with the same speed that they give a smidge back. I know what I'm goign to do with mine: $300= 2 tanks of gas for my company truck. Direct from the mail to the oil companies. Who's zooming who here? What a rip-off!
I didn't get anything. But I really didn't except anything from this administration.
Just more BS.
I was supposed to have my check direct deposited in my account in May. I have called the hotline a few times and got the same "high called volume" answer. I just received a letter from the IRS yesterday saying that my check should be sent by July 5th. We'll see!! I can only imagine the amount of resources that are being spent to make this happen.
My SS # ends in 11, therefore I was supposed to get a check in late May. Here it is July 3rd - no check. They better not expect me to pay taxes on it! Although I will be paying in the long run...
Just curious if you got yours yet. My number is 95 and should be a check mailed by the 11th. I am hoping to get early. Please share (:
Here in Oregon the local goverment is taking the checks for back taxes and child support or any other accounts owed.
I sent mine back.
That's right...REFUSED.
How can you accept money (or anything) from this administration.
Fools.
go to youtube and look under
"stimulus this"
I sent mine back...REFUSED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgfqLPRNBbw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgfqLPRNBbw
I think we have to many people in this world anymore for anything to work out. I am scared for my kids. The stimulus check deal is a band-aide who cares where it was borrowed earned whatever, it doesnt matter. We would be better off as a communist society all over the world. Because we are watching people be enslaved everyday by our capitalist ideas and being promised this and that and its nothing but one big head leading the other big head. We go over to Iraq to show them how they should live granted yes Saddam was terrible to his people but I and my husband work our asses off and I barely have enough food in my home and the weldfare office says I make too much, hahahaha. We are starving. This is not right either. The irs said I was to have my check in the mail yesterday and to not call them for 3-4 weeks to allow it to get here, MY FAMILY NEEDS MONEY! where is it government.
capitalism was based on if you work hard you will achieve finacial success, not when minimum wage ranges from 6.75-7.35 and gas ranges from 4.10-4.90 and who controls this our government. Some of the most physically hard working americans make diddly squat while people in our state offices and city offices are making six figure incomes doing what? Eating another jelly doughnut. Disgusting! Capitalism is a fancy way of saying you are a slave trader to your own people. I am really upset about believing in the government. I need my stimulus check. I hope that people go down to the welfare office and start lieing about whos in there house etc. and start getting what is owed to you. Who are they to say I make to much money. And they have these recovered drug addicts as your social workers that look like they are hung over asking "well whos gonna pay this and whos gonna pay that" I say" none of your god dam business look at my wages and ask the government who the hell can live on this." and college loans hahahah another way our government entraps us to believe we just need to be educated and then we will be wealthy what a crock.
I didn't get a stimulus check and the IRS web site says it's because my Adjusted Gross Income was too high. That is bullshit. It's just because I'm single with no kids. That demographic is growing so we need to stop pretending that those people are not normal because they didn't want to marry someone they knew would change later and ruin their life. Most single people know married people and that is why they stay single. If they were not going to send me a rebate then they shouldn't have sent the latter saying they were. I hate this government but for so many more important reasons than this.
I was suppose to receive my stimulus check on June 13th. As of today July 8th I have not received it. I have called the hotline which tells you nothing and have used the "Where is My Stuimulus Check" webpage to look for my check. I can not find a number to call where I can actually speak with a person to ask the question, "Where is my stuimulus check" I did file a 2007 income tax.
I got a letter stating I would recieve my check on June 13th, still ain't got it. I did finally get through to the irs after about 50 phone calls back to back and stayed on hold over 45 minutes, then when I finally get through they tell me they can't do anything to July 11th.
July 9th and nothing - filed 2007 and paid my taxes - SSN ends in 54 -
Pity the poor IRS. They can figure how to jack my money (well, borrow it interest free) every two weeks, before i see it mind you, but can't figure out how to return it in a timely fashion.
Another thing, has anyone considered what monetizing the debt of this "stimulus package" will have done to the actual sum total of payment (in terms of spending power) received?
Yesterday's dollar ain't today's.
P.S. taxing an individual for the privilege of working is also known as slavery.
Welcome to red amerika, comrades! Suffer at the hands of your savior.
I was supposed to receive my direct deposit on May 16 according to my letter from the IRS, but it never showed. I noticed a paragraph at the bottom of the back of my letter saying that my rebate had been delayed. No further explanation. I have been patient. I just called them today, sat on hold for 40 minutes, gave them the reference number generated from the "Where's My Stimulus Payment" web page only to be told that there was no further notation on my account than what I had. They didn't know what the delay was for, said that my reference number meant my payment had been delayed and suggested I call back in a couple weeks. NO help at all.
Now, I understand the IRS didn't ask for all this stimulus stuff to get dumped on them, but can't they at least be better communicators? Can't they at least put more information on their web site acknowledging delays and reasons for them and actions they are taking? Something???
I was promised one, yet i havnt gotten mine and dont think i wont. i certainly would like $600, but this plan isnt going to fix the economy. I find it absurd that the government thinks this economic stiumulus plan will work. Their intention is to get money into the hands of americans who will go out and spend it like teenagers, yet they seem to come up with excuses as to why i dont qualify for this money. It shouldnt matter if your qualified or not, just as long as your someone who will go out and spend that money-isnt that simply all that matters? Our government is too fucking stupid to look at things in a simple way, and i think they have realized that this stimulus plan wont work, so theyre comming up with excuses as to why im not getting my check. The IRS expects me to file my taxes on time, yet they dont think i should get a measily $600 which was allready my money. THis is a perfect example of what is wrong with this government, and i hope the economy does go into a recession just to make the god damn government look even worse and incompetant, proving that they failed to stimulate the economy.
if you give a farmer seeds so that he can plant corn which will be used to feed people, would you come up with a reason to not give him the seeds? Where is my stimulus check? Why am i not alowed to stimulate the economy as you want me to do?
well...my last numbers are 67 and i got a letter saying i would receive my check on the 27th of June...its now July 14...still no check...i file my tax in mid March...so i called the number on the letter i gotten from the IRS and been on hold for 30 minutes and counting.
Well according to the website, mine was suppose to be mailed on Friday June 11th.I've been told by various people that I should have it by the end of the week, however I am not holding my breath.I'll give it until July 11th and if I still have not recieved it then I'll call. Funny thing is when I've tried to call and see if mine was actually going to be mailed to me or if it was going to be mailed the the Sanata Barbara Bank then mailed to me, since that was a goof on the part of the gov't so if you havent recieved your check look into the Santa Barbara Bank slip up, I can never get through.So i'll just keep my eye out for it and see what happens.
Mailed my tax return on
April 10th (stamped
recieved by IRS April 14th)
got direct deposit refund
on May 9th, but have heard
zip about stimulus check
(as of July 14th). Certain
there are thousands of
folks who weren't processed
by April 15th - what happens
to us?
IRS has a great plan -
check the website that tells
you to phone and when
you call their recording
says check the website.
And around we go- argh!
still have not got out stimulus or child credit.. no letter nothing. filed by april 15. have got the state. really what gives.
we need JOBS. not this run around. I have a kid for god sakes.
I let my mother claim me this year as a dependent to help her get more money b/c she is broke and they did not give me a stimulus check for that. why are the ones with no money are the ones not getting this money? who does this help????
For heaven's sake, people!
If you had bothered to see the original timetable for stimulus checks, you wouldn't be calling and groaning. I was originally scheduled to get mine in the first week in September. I got mine last Saturday.
Wait and be glad there's anything coming.
why are the ones with no money are the ones not getting this money
It's based on what's called a "Tax Rebate".
It's Not, and Never Was billed as a "Government Handout", where other taxpayers would foot the bill for You getting a "freebie".
In order to get a Tax Rebate on Federal Income Tax, you have to PAY some Federal Income Tax. And the rules limit the amount you can be rebated to the amount you actually paid in.
I got my letter on june 23rd & the check was supposed to be sent out the 20th, I called & they said to call back the 18th of july which is today, of course you can't talk to a live person. my brother has the same mailing address & a later SS # but he got his check sooner , just on 7-7 & the next day got his letter, so who knows,I am just wondering, I mean its not gonna make or break my financial situation but would be nice to get or a answer about when to expect it, but the bush bashing & whine'n ,please... move to france or canookada, or like they say "if you don't like it ,you can get out!" lol send it to john mccain when you get it, or they will get it back 10 fold in the first yr of a obama yo mama "jenkins" admin.
They just anounced that the congress is trying to approve a 2nd stimulus payment. I sent my first back, and I will send this one back if they send it.
Say no to money (even if it's hard). In 1913 the FRB was started. In 1929 our dollar was devalued and the economy didn't know what to do. There was a huge crash that led to a run on the banks, combined with the rising cost of goods that seriously helped to contribute to 1929.
Are our goods dramatically rising in cost? Is the stock market way down? Have any banks had a run yet?
Now our dollar is worth about 0.04 on the dollar. Our forefathers new that money should only be printed when its backed by gold or silver. For all intensive purposes it is not anymore.
Please don't take any more money. Sure, I would like money (like probably most people), but the part the government doesn't tell you is where they are getting that money, and that it will just end up making everything else cost even more. If you don't know how the FRB works find out!
Is this a country of the people, for the people, by the people? Is that what this is? Cuz I was never asked if any of this was okay!
They just anounced that the congress is trying to approve a 2nd stimulus payment.
JUST announced it?
Obama said months ago that he wanted to stimulate us some more, and he'd push for a second round.
Everybody in DC wants to have their name on what the public is supposed to think is "Free Money From The Government"..., long about election season.
Apprently, I didn't make enough money last year to get a stimulus check. I paid over $1,000 in taxes last year and it says on the website that if you made more than $3,000 (which I did) you'll get a check. I don't get it. Also, they didn't tell me that I wasn't getting one so I was sitting here expecting my check and already had plans for it. I hate our government!
I DID NOT RECEIVE A STIMULUS CHECK EITHER. THEY TOLD ME I DID NOT EARN ENGOGH IN 2007, THANKS TO BUSH I WAS LAYED OFF IN JAN 2007, COLLECTED UNEMPLOYMENT FOR 3 MONTHS AT A FRACTION OF MY TAKE HOME PAY. I AM NOW WORKING BUT ONLY PART TIME AT A THIRD OF WHAT I WAS MAKING WHEN WORKING IN MY FIELD. I GUESS THIS VET. DID NOT DESERVE A STIMULUS, PLEASE GIVE US BACK THE CLINTON YEARS. WHEN OUR GOVERNMENT CARED FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS, EXCUSE ME NOW THE LOWER CLASS.
A friend got an official government notice that she was too poor and therefore not worthy of a stimulus check. Her income is below the poverty level and she also receives food stamps in order to survive. Seems to me she's precisely the person who needs a stimulus check.
Okay, this sucks. The IRS website says that I did not make enough money to receive an economic stimulus check. The poor are the ones that are really in need of this - and now we can't even get it? Sighs!
P.S. To those individuals that do not want their check. Please, sign it over to me. I didn't get anything. I didn't make enough!
Yes, isn't ir peculiar how the affluent received theirs the quickest and us less to do are still waiting. Hmmmm.