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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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.
Josh, good point. I also think that some folks are not receiving the full amount due to income and assume that the rebate for the child was left out. I just posted about it: http://www.taxgirl.com/ask-the-taxgirl-why-didnt-i-receive-all-of-my-rebate/
i am so confused we are 04 i dont know if it will mail out on the 9th or the 16th help
I am confused, we didn’t recieve our direct deposit today, which the IRS website says should have happened today. The last two of our SSN is 42, and we made 52000 last year. We definately should have gotten a deposit today.
Since the rebates were moved up by several days does this affect the “where’s my stimulus rebate” inquiry? According to the new dates I should have a check mailed out to me by the 16th of May. I should be able to view the status on the IRS website but I get a message that says the info is not available. I am wondering if it will show up a week before my original mailing date…Also, I never received a letter telling me how much I would get and when. I only received a letter saying that I should be eligible…a standard letter that everyone got.
sh*t how much am i getting?
my tax guy says he doesn’t how much aim getting the IRS says the same and bush having a great all time cuz his daughter just got married…
I filed with hrblock.. My last two digits are 37 and I know people that have 63 and have recieved theirs.. What is going on? I should have recieved my direct deposit by now.
speaking of which, i never received a letter saying anything and I filed my taxes for 2007.. I have been hoping I haven’t been over looked.. How would you find out? I have called and gone to the IRS website and I am an error in their system, they can’t tell me anything..
Just wanted to say that I should have had ours direct deposit may 9th according to the original schedule I called the irs and the lady told me that ours will be mailed due to us getting our return back with in 14days she said anyone who received there return within the a 14 day period after filing will get a paper check thats according to the irs lady so just be aware that this may be why you have not recieved your deposit
Oh and we never got a letter in the mail but she showed that we would recieve a payment try and call them
my father is a senior and he was suppose to get his on the 9th as well,but nothing instead the irs sent him a letter saying he will be getting it in 6weeks is that right? forget it people are getting stressed out for nothing cuz after all of this we are going to pay it all back and then some….
any possibilities of the rebate paper checks going out even sooner than the revised schedule on your site? I’m fighting a losing battle w/bills and am a single parent w/no help!!!!! pls advise
Stacie,
6 weeks sounds about right I know what you mean about everyone stressing out over this I cant see why everyone was told that checks were coming early when they knew all along that the were following the first date they have caused more headach that what was needed. There are so many people counting on this money and they have just added a new worry to everyones stress level
Good luck
you said that sounds about right i thought that the IRS was not suppose to send anyone any written letters at all, and now they are — what is realy going here?. I think the gov. is realy in a major slumpp and they are driving all athe old folk crazy!they say never promise and baby candy and an old man money!!!as for me i don’t realy care if i get it or not but is’t just stupid the way george B.. is going about it .. have another beer george B..
I got mine as scheduled, it was direct deposited into my account in the morning on the 8th.
There are a few things that the IRS Web site is now mentioning that it did not initially. One if you filed through an Tax Agency, such as HR Block, Jackson Hewitt etc,…. and they were allowed to take a portion of your return as payment for their services… You have to get a check instead of Direct Deposit.
So for those of you who requested Direct Deposit but you used one of the above tax services to do your taxes that is why your Direct Deposit did not go into your account as scheduled.
Did anyone get a paper check through the mail today with ss# 00-09? they was suppose to be sent out on 5-9-08. I know it take 3-5 days to mail, but someone should at least got theirs through the mail today.
I know my brother got his on monday his last are 21 he got a letter saturday saying the amount and got his check on monday
I got my letter yesterday 5-12-08, and social security ends with 03, I am waiting on the mailman I will let you know if I will get mines today. Im from Long Beach, Ca.
No mine did not arrive in the mail today, I guess most checks was not mailed
Friday, 5-09-08 like they stated before. When someone do get their check in the mail please keep me updated, Thanks.
I was suppose to get direct deposit but
according to the above information I guess I will now get it in the mail. I have moved now, can anyone tell me what kind of problem I’ll have now getting my rebate? Do I have to somehow let the IRS know this?
Has anyone receive any rebate check for back childsupport?
To change your address with the irs you need form 8822.
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f8822.pdf
Did anyone get a paper check today?
Has anyone gotten his/her check yet. I am starting to think we have been played.
I filed online and the 12th has come and gone and I still don’t see a check. What is up with that?
I know people are getting them two of my cousins and my brother all got theres last week
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