When the Dead Get Theirs First
By Amber
@AmbiePam (120592)
United States
May 8, 2020 8:40pm CST
I have yet to receive my stimulus check, but guess who did get theirs? My dead grandmother who died last June. That just made me shake my head. While my sister has to send it back, a friend of mine whose mother died three months ago, also got a stimulus check for his mother. I'm that case, he got to keep the check. Apparently, as long as the person died in 2020 the family can keep the check. If they died before 2020 like my grandmother, you have to send the check back.
Things can certainly get weird. What is the most recent weird thing you have experienced?
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@Alexandoy (65302)
• Cainta, Philippines
9 May 20
Maybe the older people received theirs first than the younger.
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@Alexandoy (65302)
• Cainta, Philippines
9 May 20
@AmbiePam the priority may be mixed.
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@Juliaacv (56218)
• Canada
9 May 20
That sounds like a case where the government doesn't know how many residents actually do exist or how to cancel a cheque if its returned.
People who were too quick to hop on the bandwagon to sign up online for the $2,000 monthly that our government was passing out, found out pretty quickly that they do need to pay it back if they did not qualify. And if they were on unemployment, which many are because very few are working, then they need to pay that back. If they do not, they'll be paying come income tax time next year.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
14 May 20
That’s just crazy. I hope that you’ve received yours by now.
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@snowy22315 (208776)
• United States
9 May 20
Well it didn't really happen to me, but friend getting 3 medical masks from his broker was pretty strange. I wrote about that on here before.
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@cherriefic (10399)
• Philippines
9 May 20
I thought they were able to keep track of everybody around there? Or maybe the family can keep them that's why they still send it out.
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@moffittjc (128831)
• Gainesville, Florida
10 May 20
Would the government ever even know if you kept the check? I mean, things are so screwed up in Washington right now that the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. The checks are coming from the Treasury Department, and I doubt the IRS is keeping up with what the Treasury Department is doing, so I doubt they're even checking and cross-referencing who checks are going out to (especially since the stimulus checks are non-taxable).
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@LindaOHio (222285)
• United States
9 May 20
Nothing weird here. Same old, same old.
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@porwest (112780)
• United States
9 May 20
It is just the nature of the beast. Keep in mind the government can only keep track of so much data. There are roughly 350 million people in the country. Certainly mistakes will be made. It's inevitable. In the past when there were stimulus checks sent out the exact same thing happened. Nothing at all weird about it.
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