Posted on 04/15/2020 6:40:07 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Deceased people are receiving $1,200 coronavirus stimulus payments from the federal government on Wednesday.
A Twitter user posted about his deceased grandmother receiving a check.
“Deceased people are receiving stimulus checks today,” he wrote on Wednesday. “My grandmother passed away in 2018 — and $1,200 was deposited in her bank account today.”
The direct payments are based on individual or joint tax filings from 2018 for individuals and families who have not filed their 2019 tax returns. Social Security beneficiaries who did not file returns in those years also qualify for the payments.
Just the News has reached out to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to find out if there is a system in place to recoup the payments incorrectly made to dead people and inmates but the agency declined to comment. The Treasury Department and the Social Security Administration did not respond to requests from comment on Monday and Tuesday.
Citizens Against Government Waste President Tom Schatz told Just the News on Wednesday that the IRS relies on data submitted to the federal government from states about deceased taxpayers and inmates and some of the data is outdated. This leads to direct payments going to ineligible individuals such as deceased or incarcerated taxpayers.
"The death file, as it's called, is always out of date and that's always a problem either for normal Social Security payments and certainly in this case for the stimulus checks as well coming to dead people," he said. "It's going to happen. There's no way to avoid it because the information is not up to date and the IRS does not have the most advanced technology, as we know. It's always going to create problems simply because it is not efficient."
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Let’s see ‘em spend it
just so long as they get a mail in ballot.
Fair enough.
They are just getting paid to vote!
Can the federal government do anything ????
Yes... they can destroy the county....
Trump will start drinking if he has to work with these idiots til 2024...
If dead people can vote, why shouldn’t they get checks?
Why not? They are a voting bloc.
His grandmother died in 2018 and still has an open checking account? Wonder if anyone has notified SS about her passing...
“My grandmother passed away in 2018 — and $1,200 was deposited in her bank account today.”
Did anybody ask why his deceased Grandmother still has an active bank account?
My brother-in-law died on 4/9 after a long illness. His payment would have probably been approved before his date of death. Can my sister keep that check?
The estate should be settled by this point.
Somehow I just knew that was gonna happen...
And why he’s checking it.
When my mother died I notified SS about 2 days later. They told me they were going to pull her last check back out so to leave it. I did. They did and then I went and closed the account.
I was just pondering how many dead people will be getting checks. And how many of those dead people are working as illegal aliens and using the deceased SS number. And how many illegal aliens that use multiple SS numbers are going to get multiple checks?
It would not be that unusual if there was joint signer/owner on the account. One does not have to take the name off the bank account, it is just easier as sometimes bills continue to come in, BUT SS would have been notified by the funeral home, if there had been a funeral.
Sometimes probate can take years.
See Bleak House. First paragraph.
Americans should be ashamed that the Congress voted to spend these trillions of dollars and Americas should be ashamed to take their grandchildren’s money.
Well, Democrat voters get checks too.
Tax fraud schemes that receive refunds for long dead people have been going on for decades in some places. The odds of being audited when you file the most simple type of return is effectively zero and you are sure to get a refund if you have the right boxes checked.
A six hundred to a thousand dollar refund for a few hundred dead folks adds up pretty fast.
JMHo
Not the least bit. They are not going to HAVE a country, because the Democrats are going to steal it out from under them. And the grandchildren, properly brain dead, will smile. It's coming apart at the seams, and I'm willing to loot the corpse.
We tried to let Socialism die a natural death. Turns out getting free stuff is too attractive. We'd have to kill it.
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