Why are dependents getting a stimulus check now?

[ansible]

Not complaining, I know a lot of younger people who got screwed over by their parents still claiming them as dependents for taxes. I'm just surprised consideration was finally given for adult dependents this time.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. I don't understand ... describe who this group of people are that are getting checks this time

that did not before?

[Blasphemer]

4. Those over 18 claimed as dependents on another person's tax return

Minor dependents were accounted for (with $500 and then $600 payments per minor child in the past two disbursements) but not adult dependents. The only problem I see with the current distribution to adult dependents is that, as I understand it, they don't get the payments directly. Instead the person claiming them (typically a parent) will get the money on their behalf. I'm sure that will be a problem for some people.

[ARPad95]

5. It's over age 17. So all 18-year-old dependents got left out, too.

[Blasphemer]

18. Correct. I should have said those "18 and over". nt

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. Thanks! nt

[GPV]

16. Both of my sons who still live at home.

[ARPad95]

2. My ds graduated college in May 2019. He was unable to work due to an injury requiring surgery & PT.

That all took place late Summer 2019 through the end of 2019. On the 1st of January 2020, he moved to an apartment and started job hunting and then Covid-19 hit. At any rate, he was our dependent for the 2019 tax year. We didn't receive any stimulus payment for him nor did he receive any stimulus payment the first 2 go-arounds.

He should be receiving it this time at age 23 even though he/we haven't filed 2020 tax returns yet and he's still considered a dependent based on 2019 tax return.

[regnaD kciN]

3. Because DEMOCRATS designed this bill...

[BleedsBlue]

7. My 21yo son..

My 21 yo son is a Junior at UF and we claim him as a dependent and we are getting the 1400 dollars for him. It's pending to our bank account.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. The last two stimulus checks showed up in my account astonishingly fast.

At present I haven't gotten the $1400 check, even though I know people who have gotten it. My guess is that the IRS is doing their best, and the fact that I haven't gotten it is trivial. I do file taxes every year, and I got the previous two checks very quickly. I will get this one soon enough.

[Celerity]

11. They have at least 8 million backlogged 2020 tax returns that are slowing thigs up, the other 2 aid

cheques were sent at a less backlogged time. It is why many who are eligible go onto the IRS site and get a 'no info' reply. That happens when they see your return for 2020 has been filed, but NOT processed yet.

There is another way you can get the 'no info'. You are either not eligible from your 2019 income (and the IRS has no record of a return filed for 2020), OR you filed your 2020 return, it WAS processed, and it also (the cut-off is much lower for zero returned for the new 1400 usd cheque, it's 20K less allowed in AGI to get zeroed out) shows you ineligible. That is what happened to my cousin. She would have gotten gotten around 1150-1200 usd under the old cut-off formula, she got 2 cheques before (for almost the full amounts), and now gets zero. Plus her job just cut her to half-time pay until at least mid-summer, maybe fall, and she lives in Los Angeles, just had purchased her first condo ever 2 years ago, and has a tonne of bills. She is seething atm or was the last I spoke to her. I offered to help her out, and that made her even more angry, as she is one of those fiercely self-sustaining West Indian types (I admit to being a bit like that too, but not as hardcore as she is, she is more like my mum in some ways than I am, lol), never in her life has taken a dime from anyone, in terms of family or friends. Hopefully she has relaxed a bit more the next time I call her.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. I have been filing all along.

My income is well below the limits for the stimulus checks. I suspect that the reason I have not yet gotten it is some kind of variable in how its given out, compared to how the earlier stimulus checks were sent.

I got the earlier two in the very first round of those stimulus checks. This time not quite as fast. But I'm confident I'll get my deposit quickly enough.

[Elessar Zappa]

17. What's weird is

that for the first stimulus they went off my 2019 tax return in which I made $15,000. I got the $1200 but then never received the second $600 even though nothing had changed. So I filled out my 2020 taxes and claimed $600 under recovery rebate. I still haven’t received the $600 or $1400. I hope I get it soon because I really need it.

[Indykatie]

9. One of The HUGE Benefits in Biden's Package is All Dependents Treated the Same for $1400 Pymnt

[JI7]

10. To help cut down on poverty

There will always be shitty people that do shitty things .

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. Poverty.

I've been quite poor most of my life growing up, and even in my early years of full time employment. I know all too well what poverty is like. It is all too easy too fall into a poverty mindset, even long after leaving poverty behind.

On one hand, my poverty mindset means I'm able to save money these days. On the other, it means I can't appreciate not being so poor any more.

[Iggo]

12. Democrats are better than Republicans, that's why.

[abqtommy]

15. +100 Because elections have consequences and this is one of them? That's one good

reason.