Treasury sent more than 1 million coronavirus stimulus payments to dead people
Source: The Washington Post
The federal government sent coronavirus stimulus payments to almost 1.1 million dead people totaling nearly $1.4 billion, Congress independent watchdog reported Thursday.
The Washington Post previously reported that the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service disbursed some payments of up to $1,200 each to dead people. But the astonishing scope of the problem had not been known.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office, an independent investigative agency that reports to Congress, issued the finding as part of a comprehensive report on the nearly $3 trillion in coronavirus relief spending approved by Congress in March and April. It said it had received the information from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration in an accounting as of April 30.
The revelation comes as President Trump and some members of his administration advocate for another round of stimulus checks. The news that so much money has gone to the dead could add to reluctance from some Republicans to agree to more direct relief payments.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/06/25/irs-stimulus-checks-dead-people-gao/
Title ends with "congressional watchdog finds", which didn't fit in the character limits.
C_U_L8R
(44,889 posts)iluvtennis
(19,756 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,652 posts)If ACH didn't refuse payment, why not? If by check, were they cashed/deposited? Are they still registered to vote?
brush
(53,467 posts)cash them.
I had a joint account with my mother.
You don't need an ID to deposit a check to the account held by the person the check's made out to.
Years ago I did the accounts for a non-profit. Accidentally swapped checks for two accounts. One check was for a few thousand dollars, the other for some small amount, under $100. The company expecting the large check but which received the small one made out to somebody else properly objected and returned the check. I contacted the company due the small check but which received the large one, made out to somebody else, and found they'd just stamped the back and deposited. I called the bank, but the check had cleared--this was in the days when it would take a day or two to clear a check. Bank shrugged and said unless I'd contacted them before the check had cleared, there was absolutely nothing they could do, would do, or were required to do. Regardless of the mismatch between the signature on the back and the payee name on the front. If I wanted to, I could sue--not the bank, but the person who (mis)cashed the check.
brush
(53,467 posts)people, none of them found their way back to the government.
FailureToCommunicate
(13,988 posts)Bayard
(21,801 posts)That was supposedly mailed mid-May. No tax refund yet either.
Dead people come first, I guess.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)Still waiting.
iluvtennis
(19,756 posts)his bank account info and he was paid electronically about a month later.
How to check on your stimulus payment is here: https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus/get-my-payment
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Deceased MIL got one. I am in hopes that the BIL in charge of the estate will return it, but the whole thing was pretty much a cluster F when it was done.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Glad to have the careful businessmens in charge again, tra la.
Thirties Child
(543 posts)Chainfire
(17,304 posts)against the dead. I wonder how many of them cashed the checks?
benld74
(9,888 posts)former9thward
(31,798 posts)About 3 million people in the U.S. die every year. Most of them old enough to be tax payers or on social security. No one tells the IRS when someone dies. The only thing surprising is that the 1.1 million still on IRS lists is as low as it is.
Kitchari
(2,157 posts)My deceased mother in law got one, and we sent it back
Kaleva
(36,145 posts)Greybnk48
(10,147 posts)Bengus81
(6,907 posts)The ones that were 62 and over and had drawn SS. Those dudes know in a HURRY when someone has died and stop their payments. My dad died on June 27 2008 and never received another social security deposit. His next deposit would have been on the second Wed of July about 11-12 days later.
He did receive one more pension check that I had to return..........
miyazaki
(2,220 posts)If their lives depended on this stimulus money they'd be dead already, and
then maybe they'd get their money.
USA!