[Libloather]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/04/coronavirus-stimulus-outdated-technology-could-delay-checks-experts-say/5112012002/

[ClearCase_guy]

The IRS has been complaining about its antiquated technology for at least 20 years.

[Caipirabob]

Kind of makes you want to strangle "the experts".

Keep your @#$% hands out of my pockets you scumsuckers!

[FES0844]

John Koskinen and Lois Lerner were too busy handling other matters at the IRS.

[AndyJackson]

IRS holding the country to ransome again. We want our cut of the deal. Everyone else is getting some. How about us. It’s government bureaucrats and their well=heeled support service contractors doing what they do. Trump should tell them that he will start firing folks if they can’t do their jobs.

[MD Expat in PA]

If you didn’t file your 2019 or 2018 taxes AND get a refund via direct deposit, don’t hold your breath on how soon you will get a check. Also if you changed bank accounts since you filed and received a refund via direct deposit, don’t hold your breath on the IRS getting a website up and running for adding or updating your direct deposit information. Same with an address change although perhaps would be forwarded depending how long ago you moved and if the USPS is still forwarding mail. But if and when they do get a website for updating DD or address, the window of time between when you will have access to update and how soon that data will make it to the master file and when they have to start pulling data from the masterfile for printing checks is going to be incredibly tight.

I don’t care what Mnuchin says, 2 weeks is not realistic.

[CincyRichieRich]

Delays with me on purpose. Pure and simple. The same people that work there are the same people Lois Lerner shepherded.

[ronnie raygun]

Im sure there are Obama left overs screwing things up for trump no doubt

[FLvoter]

“We will create a web-based system for people where [if] we don’t have their direct deposit [information], they can upload it so that they can get the money immediately as opposed to checks in the mail,” Mnuchin said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

[MotorCityBuck]

“Experts warn”. 😂

[xrmusn]

Am sure the scammers are ‘loving’ this type of crap.

It makes them more ‘credible’ when asking for YOUR data and after seeing all this crap SOME people become more vulnerable.

Then the ‘fixers’ move in and finish the sheep off.

[alabama_heart]

Another good reason to start opening up businesses again.

[yarddog]

Around 1982 I saw a short film of the Treasury check printing machinery. Some of it dated to the 1800s.

The explanation was that it still worked fine.

[moovova]

Just take it off the taxes I owe for tax year 2020...or even 2019 when I go see the tax lady next week. Perfectly acceptable to me.

Better yet...just give me a National Parks coastal fort. The Dry Tortugas fort would suit me fine. Of course, I'm gonna need some big guns to mount on the walls. Talk about social distancing...

[lowbridge]

Their antiquated technology doesnt seem to delay the taking of our money.