Recession? What recession?
President Bush has announced that the delivery of the rebate checks will happen sooner than initially planned. The checks will be distributed beginning Monday, four days earlier than expected.
Paper checks will be mailed May 9, one week earlier than expected.
Here’s the breakdown.
For direct deposit:
For paper checks:
Four days earlier… Do you care? Will it make a difference?
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What I care, is that my family’s social security numbers are mostly in the 90 to 99 range and it’s not part of the chart.
hmm….4 days=impressive in IRS terms. Heres the logic 4 days=28 dog days, wow almost a month ahead of schedule.
well it’s kinda weird, today is the 28th and there is nothing in my Account, is this tentatively or guaranteed for today? the last two of my ss# is 03
Kelvin – Chart had a typo, all fixed now.
Kevin – very funny!
Latoya-
It’s supposed to happen today.
Make sure you filed with direct deposit (otherwise you get a paper check). Also, I’d check bank policy – funds may not be available until this afternoon.
I just read that the IRS will deposit 800k per day for the next three days… so keep checking!
Why did I not get one the first time around? Income was over 3000 and under 24,000. Just curious!
latoya,
I haven’t gotten mine today, either. I guess, technically, they have until midnight. I get an email anytime I have a deposit into my checking acct so I’ll know as soon as it hits.
*crosses fingers and waits anxiously*
Sarah -
To clarify, the IRS is beginning to make deposits today. They are depositing to 800,000 taxpayers per day until the first batch is finished. So it could be as late as Wednesday.
how long does it take after the paper check is mailed.
I’d guess a couple of days… but keep in mind that those mailed around May 11 (Mother’s Day) could take longer. Mother’s Day is traditionally one of the most popular days to mail greeting cards.
HAS ANYONE RECEIVED THEIR REBATE??? WAITING TO HEAR AT LEAST ONE PERSON RECEIVED IT.
Why from smallest number to largest. seems a bit unfair that they do it this way all the time. How about from top to bottom this time?
What determines if you get a direct deposit rebate or a paper chaek?
Gerard, as someone in the later group, I agree! But I’m afraid the feds will never be that creative…
Anne, it depends on how you filed your 2007 tax return. If you chose direct deposit for that, then you’ll be direct deposit for your rebate. Otherwise, you’re paper.
hey taxgirl, “by the 28th” meaning today…or at earliest the 28th…and so on and so forth.
if we are so in ressesion not saying so 600.00 will not get our econamy straight better try thousands…….and if we stop buying gas at least on day a month that might just straighten some of this mess up….
TaxBoy,
Initial indications were that the deposit dates were more like deadlines, IRS has since clarified that they were beginning dates. My theory is that it’s more or less the same schedule as before – only retooled and repackaged to make it look different.
jan davis,
I agree re gas. I think a large part of our economic woes are directly tied to the rise in oil prices. It affects everything from daily commutes to the price of food and other necessities.
Why is it we can’t find a new schedule???? ONly ones I find are same ole dates as before????
Deb -
I’m not sure what “new schedule” you’re referring to. The schedule above is the IRS’ announced revised schedule.
The only difference is that the “by” dates are really “beginning” dates – but that’s bureaucracy for you!
I agree gas prices are ridiculous! Our return was filed under last 2 of social 01, we have not received anything as of yet. And I don’t think they are giving these thinking 600 is not going to do anything… they are looking at the big picture of the total dollars re-entering the economy.
hey i hope they do not start at the top i am 05 and need to fill up my suv tomorrow looks like the 1800 we get might almost let me get a full tank.
My husband’s SS# ends in 05. mine is 07 and we haven’t received anything. It should be direct deposit. Any one know if it is likely we will receive it tomorrow (wednesday)?
Some sites, like MSN are saying that all direct deposits will be completed by May 2nd. If I read correctly, something like 44 million people choose to have their tax returns sent via direct deposit.
Since it will be around 7.5 million deposits that will be made this week, I fail to see how that would be all of them, even if you do take into account those who didn’t qualify for the rebate and those who filed later and/or by paper.
Today is the 30th and I haven’t received anything yet. Mine is supposed to be a direct deposit.
YAY!!! Money!!! I Care…i think 4 days make a HUGE diffrence.At least it does in my life.
I hope this revised schedule is correct… I am counting on it for basic necessities… gas, food, and a couple of bills…
IRS is supposingly releasing 800,000 a day for since Monday… Has anyone with the last digits of 16 received their’s yet??????
Will a person with the last digit of 64 receive theirs on Friday?
I really want to know… (thanks).
I hope this revised schedule is correct.
IRS is supposingly releasing 800,000 a day for since Monday… Has anyone with the last digits of 16 received their’s yet??????
Will a person with the last digit of 64 receive theirs on Friday?
I really want to know… (thanks).
STILL HAVE NOT HEARD OF ANYONE RECEIVING THEIR CHECK??? WHATS REALLY GOING ON???
kelly
hi u said your is #03 u should get it on may09 if u getting it by mailed. direct deposit u shoulda gotten it by april28
Renee
Direct deposit -may 5
mail-june20
crystal
u and ya husband is the same date. April 28 u shoulda gotten it by then. if its mail u will get it may9
Tisha -
It’s important to understand that there are a lot of things that might affect the rebate schedules. More information here: http://www.taxgirl.com/important-rebate-information/
I got my rebate refund to day, but I should have had 300.00 additional for my daughter. Are they filing by the dependan’t SS# as well as mine? Her’s ends in 32
My sister don’t get a refund and don’t owe, she
file before the april 15. How will she received her
Rebate.
Marie, If she did not include direct deposit information on her tax return, she will receive a paper check.
Julie -
Your check should include any money attributable to your dependents. If your check is less than you thought, it could be that you didn’t pay enough tax this year to qualify for the full rebate, that you had too much income to receive the full rebate or that your dependent was disallowed. You may want to double check the rules for the rebates (look in the sidebar for more info) and also look at your tax return.
Is there an age that you don’t have to file anymore? My dad will be 73 this year and i was just wondering?He does get SS.
I efiled my return with taxact onling. I had it direct deposited into my account. will I still get my rebate direct deposited into my account.
If i had my taxes done by h&r block and got a cashiers check from them will i have to get this check from them also?
My social ends in 14, today is May1, should be direct deposited, still waiting. Why are we working people earning less than 75 to 80K a year getting only $300? Tearing my eyebrows out!
Irs.gov Currently have “under Rebate Payment Questions” a link called…Where is my Stimulus Payment? Effective today.
I plugged in my SSN; Method of Filing i.e, head of househould, etc…. and the number of exceptions “not dependents” and it will tell you the amount and the date your payment will be deposited…
Unfortunately, it had no information pretaining to me on the site… but my Co-worker who SSN ends with number 18 information was available.
My number is 64; My daughter’s number is 77 Neither of us had information on that site… Yet we qualify for the payment. I believe it’s because our week for the deposit has not yet come… I will be in next weeks spin.. and she should be in the week after… At least that is what I came up with.
I quess that if you did not qualify… it would tell you correct? Could you please confirm, if possible.
Thanks,
R.
My husbands ends in 05… still no direct deposit. Also tried the new IRS “Where’s my Stimulus Payment?” and it said there was an error with the information. No error… so confused! I just hope it comes soon.. we need it just to live on!
What if my check if being mailed and I have just moved in the past month, my mail is being forwarded. Will they forward this too?
I agreee with Jan Davis , stop buying gas EVERYONE!!!!! for just 1 day and see what happens. We should make May 6th. NO GAS DAY!!!!
GOOD NEWS this morning!!!! Rebate has arrived in my account. SS# ends with “04″ and first appeared on the IRS website yesterday with the correct amount of my anticipated rebate and a target date for deposit of the 2nd (today). Good luck to everyone; happy spending or whatever.
My last digit is 08 and I still hadn’t received anything so how will i know when it will come and it’s supposed to be direct deposit?
What’s the deal with MSN saying that all direct deposit rebates should post by today? Does the IRS have until midnight to submit them? I still have no rebate.
I also received my rebate direct deposited today, but nothing for my three children. Only the basic $1200. I cannot find one place on the web to get an answer as to why not. I don’t owe anything as I did already get a refund for this year and my student loans are in deferment so that is not the reason either. If anyone figures it out, let us know.
Thanks and I agree with everyone – this money is not going to be spent on anything to stimulate anything. It’s for all of us to just make those usual payments we always make. It just means we have one month in our lives without as much stress.
Here is the site where you can find out what, if any, rebate you will receive and when. https://sa1.www4.irs.gov/irfof/IRServlet?app=IRACTC
Please note that the $300 for each child is ONLY for children up to age 16 as of Dec 31, 2007.
Yep, they are 14 and 12. So I should have received another $600. I figured I would wait and see what happens.
My husband is in FL caring for his father and we have lost his income until he returns. This just helps to make the mortgage payment this money.
I am definitely not putting any extra funds into the economy. LOL Well then again, I might stop at Bath and Body Works as they have Wallflowers on sale for $6 and I have a $10 off coupon.
My number ends in 00 – doesn’t get any lower than that! – and I still have not gotten my direct deposit. The IRS web site is telling me there’s an error, but there isn’t. WTF?!
i called irs last night and they said if you did a refund anticipation loan or any other fast refund thing even though it was direct deposited into your account you will still get a paper check. I e filed mine with taxact online and had mine direct deposited into my account in ten days. so i will get paper check. they probably should have explained that to everyone. so just because you had your refund direct deposited does not automatically mean your rebate will get direct deposited. I called 1800-829-1040 and listened to all the options and finally talked to someone. I hope this all makes sense.
If you file joinly why isn’t the rebate for both people recieved at the same time?
I cannot see the logic of not buying gas for a day as a cure for anything. The only thing that would help is if you quit using gas for a day. If everybody decides to not buy fuel on the sixth of the month, it only means they will need to buy more when they do fill it up. You use what you use regardless of a buying schedule. Conservation of fuel is the answer. Use less, supply rises. Keep using less, prices (hopefully) slowly go down. You personally save anyway by using less. Good luck with your stimulus checks; mine is sorely needed.
I e-filed my return but I gave the wrong account # I called the bank that issued my tax refund and corrected my bank account #.Will this error delay my rebate check.
Well, I filed our taxes Jan 28. We were to have received ours direct d. by May 9th….by both the original and revised schedule on the irs website. Some schedules such as aarp say by the 5th….however today the website and rebate hotline both say sorry no specific info. Prior to that I got “may have made a mistake”. I don’t know what the H to think.
Is it true that the rebate checks will go towards back childsupport, if you are going thru the Attorney General office?
Will the IRS tell me if I get my ex’s rebate for back childsupport?
Well, yeehaw…..finally this am the irs website says our rebate will be dd May 9th. All the h this is, is the “orginal date” it was to be deposite back before the “early speech”…….so don’t believe the info you read on the websites that tell you it will be a week or 4 days early as we are in the 2nd batch and ours is not. What a bunch of happy $h&t.
By the way, that blows that some of you are not receiving the anticipated amount especially those of you with children. My husband and I don’t have any and I know what a struggle even we have. I don’t know how you do it with everything we need to live on so expensive. Hell, it use to be we could just cut out so called “wants” to make ends meet. Hard to cut out basic necessities. I agree all this will do is give a month relief of some of the stress. But I know we can all sure as heck use it.
My husband and I filed using Turbo Tax with direct deposit and were told by the IRS we would be getting a paper check in the mail.
Another bit of info..the IRS also told my husband that they have already started mailing out the checks and we could see ours in 7-10 days. Last two digits of ss are 15.
according to the above dates i should have recieved my direct deposit May 5th….ummm…its the 6th? no money yet!
The accelerated rebate payment schedule only applied to the EFT distributions for the first week only. All of those EFT rebate refund distributions for SSNs ending between 21 through 75 will all be processed on MAY 9, 2008 only. The media spin asociated with accelerated distributions for subsequent weeks was political grandstanding in its worst form leading the public to falsely anticipate and hope they would receive early rebate distributions each week. But in fact, the acceleration occured during the first scheduled distribution week only.
Kevin II,
Do you have any info to back up what you are saying about SSN 21-75? I’ve been searching all over for this hoping to figure out if mine would be coming earlier than May 9th, but nothing official yet.
Christoper…..what Kevin is saying is correct. I am in the group you are and my original date to have dd was May 9th. (We had received a letter some time ago telling us the anticipated amount and when it would come) I too as you was elated to hear the dates had all moved up and the story was anywhere from 4 days to a week earlier than anticipated. Monday morning the irs website info gave me the date of deposit to my account is May 9th…..this Friday. I can tell you this, every year we receive a refund and every year it is scheduled to deposit on a Friday – HOWEVER it every year it is in our account on the day before ..Thursday. So my only hope is a day early cause it certainly is not there today. This blows as we all were very excited the money was to come early so I feel your pain. We just all got fed a bunch of $hit. The above schedule is not accurate.. Sorry.
So nobody I personally know has gotten it, but there are various reports online (not verifiable by me) of people scheduled for May 9th who have already gotten theirs. One such person said they contacted the IRS and was told that people who filed a 1040EZ with no dependents would be getting theirs earlier in the week.
Christopher…I don’t know if they filed jointly but we did.. no dependents other than the two of us ..we filed 1040EZ online with HR Block…had no fee…got direct deposit refund. As I said my only hope as it it scheduled for Friday dd and it is not there today is a slim chance tomorrow and I only base that on every year our refund is schedule to be on a Friday and it shows in our account a day before on a Thursday. I have also read alot who were scheduled to get theirs May 2 didn’t so I just wonder what the “rhyme and reason is on this whole deal. We certainly are told alot of lies and kept in the dark, I will say that.
i wont go into details but lets just say the money better be here on friday at the latest or im packing this weekend and being evicted monday morning! the post above was dead wrong. i had my return electronicly filed and direct deposited to my account! according to the above post i should have had it by the 5th!…its now the 8th!
at this point in time its my last chance to fix things before monday!
The IRS will automatically figure in the “children” portion of your rebate. The only reason I can think of that they wouldnt send you an additional $300 per child is if another person claimed those children with their social security numbers showing that person claimed them.
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