If the IRS has direct deposit information for you, you’ll get your $1,200 stimulus payment in a couple of weeks:
Then, starting the week of May 4, the IRS will begin issuing paper checks to individuals, says the memo obtained by AP Thursday. The paper checks will be issued at a rate of about 5 million per week, which means it could take up to 20 weeks to get all the checks out. That timeline would delay some checks until the week of Aug. 17.
Hmmm. I suppose it’s too much to ask that they at least get the money out to the poorest folks first. Hell, knowing how they usually operate, they’ll probably—
The checks will be issued in reverse order of adjusted gross income, meaning that people with the lowest income will get payments first.
Oh. Well, good job.
I wonder why they’re issuing only 5 million checks per week? Is that literally the limit of the check printers they have? Or what?
