People who receive Social Security and other types of federal benefits are eligible for Economic Impact Payments, but many are still waiting. It’s been 10 days since the Internal Revenue Service began processing the third round of stimulus checks, but many Americans who receive federal benefits are still waiting for their payments—or, at least, they’d like an update on when they can expect to get paid. Read Full Story

Americans who need the payments most are getting caught in the middle of a complex back-and-forth. In response to pressure from Congress to speed up the delivery of the latest stimulus checks to people who receive federal benefits, the commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Andrew Saul, posted a lengthy statement in an attempt to explain why tens of millions of recipients are still waiting for payments more than two weeks after the American Rescue Plan Act was signed into law. Read Full Story

The IRS started sending out the third round of stimulus checks in March. So far, millions of people have received their stimulus checks, but many got a payment less than what they were eligible for on the basis of their 2020 tax return. To such people, who have already got the third coronavirus stimulus check, […]

However, the soonest Americans are likely to receive a third stimulus check is mid-March. If you’re holding out for the third stimulus check, there’s some good news: the next payment is still on track to be $1,400 for many Americans. That’s thanks to House Democrats who have defeated a Republican-led effort to lower the threshold for the next stimulus payment, reports CNN. Read Full Story

Still, some Americans could wait up to five months to receive their check.

Many students are ineligible to receive the $1,200 stimulus check because they are claimed as dependents on their parents’ tax return. Since mid-April, the federal government has sent out millions of stimulus payments to Americans in an attempt to prevent a crippling recessio n as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Read Full Story

8 million prepaid debit cards will be sent out this week. Here’s what the envelope with it looks like–so keep your eyes peeled. Millions of Americans have received their $600 stimulus check by direct deposit since the beginning of the new year. Yet many are still waiting on the Covid-related Economic Impact Payment. Read Full Story

Dems are trying to pass the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill before certain benefits expire this month. The current package includes $1,400 relief checks and $400 a week in federal unemployment benefits.

Americans have been waiting months and months for relief. The presidential race is over, but now the Georgia runoffs loom on the horizon. Election Day has passed and COVID-19 lockdowns are returning. Millions of Americans are still desperately awaiting some kind of aid in the form of stimulus checks or expanded federal unemployment, like the kind that was passed with the CARES Act back in March but has since expired . Here’s the latest on what’s happening in Washington with the long-promised congressional bill for coronavirus relief: Read Full Story

Under the GOP proposal, only certain Americans would get a third stimulus check. President Joe Biden is eager to pass legislation that would get another round of stimulus checks out to all Americans. Under Biden’s $1.9 trillion proposal, the president wants another stimulus check, this time worth $1,400, to go out ASAP. The amount of Biden’s proposed economic impact payment would be the largest one-off COVID-19 stimulus payment Americans have received yet. Read Full Story