Same thing here. Received direct deposit last time. This time, website said a paper check will be mailed on January 6. Nothing has arrived yet.
debit card is here!!!
Oh, my 19yo does not get a $600? She turned 18yo Feb 2020, graduated high school and entered junior college (full time) in 2020, filed her own 1040EZ in 2020 for a part time job. We claimed her as a dependent in our married filing joint tax return and she claimed herself as a dependent on her tax return. Should she get her own $600?
Thanks, I did this today. Lotta screwing around, but beats going to the bank.
If you claimed her as a dependent on your 2019 tax return, then no, she doesn't get a $600 payment of her own.
There's no such thing as a 1040EZ any more, so hopefully she filed a regular 1040 for tax-year 2019 and checked the box that said someone else could claim her as a dependent.
That is such a bummer because she literally is dependent on us as she attends school full time, and young adults like her EAT A LOT !!!
So, if she filed as INDEPENDENT in 2020 on her tax return, she would have gotten her own $600?
Sorry, she did her own tax online with Turbo Tax because her return only consisted of that part time job, no dividends, no capital gains, etc, I just assumed it was 1040 EZ, what I did decades ago when I was in her shoes as a junior college student.
That is such a bummer because she literally is dependent on us as she attends school full time, and young adults like her EAT A LOT !!!
So, if she filed as INDEPENDENT in 2020 on her tax return, she would have gotten her own $600?
Sorry, she did her own tax online with Turbo Tax because her return only consisted of that part time job, no dividends, no capital gains, etc, I just assumed it was 1040 EZ, what I did decades ago when I was in her shoes as a junior college student.
Speaking of slow mail. We had a Medicare check mailed from Fidelity on the 6th so it would get to Medicare by the 11th. Normally Medicare cashes that check within a day or two of the scheduled delivery date, but we didn't see the check cashed until today the 20th, so something is much slower than usual.Informed Delivery shows a check will arrive today from the US Treasury. The IRS site said it was scheduled to be mailed on the 6th, so it only took 13 days to get here.
DD still lives at home, we basically support her except she did pay for her own books and tuition at the local junior college. We are saving her 529 until she transfer to the university in maybe another two years.Just to be clear, has she actually filed her 2020 tax return? That is the one that's due on April 15, 2021. Practically nobody has filed those yet because the IRS won't accept e-filed returns until Feb 12 this year. The returns that you and she filed during 2020 were actually for 2019. When discussing tax returns it's usually easier if you refer to the tax year rather than the actual date you filed.
If neither of you has yet filed your 2020 returns, then it's true that if you do not claim her as a dependent on your MFJ return, and she files her own return without checking the "someone can claim me as a dependent" box, then she would get both stimulus payments as part of her 2020 refund. But in order to do that legally, she has to qualify as independent by providing more than half her own support during 2020. If she has a 529 account that she's using to pay for college, or if she received money from someone other than you (i.e. a grandparent), or if her job pays very well, then it might be plausible to claim she's providing more than half her own support, but most likely she isn't and she is therefore not entitled to either of the 2020 stimulus payments.
Looks like I got the plastic.
When I opened this letter, what was inside was a replacement credit card from my credit union. Nothing to do with the stimulus payment. I guess we have an "informed delivery" failure, because the image below was tagged with "US Treasury..."
So, still waiting.
My ladyfriend and I are wondering why she hasn't gotten her check yet. Her tax return is simple; no income other than her 1 job, income easily below the $75k limit to receive the full amount. The first payment was direct-deposited to her bank back in May. No change in address or banking info. Income nearly the same in 2020 as in 2019 (and 2018).
She filed her 2019 tax return back in March and her payment via paper check was cashed quickly. No questions about her return (which I actually prepared for her). So, when we go to that website within the IRS website to check on her latest payment's status, we see this:
"Payment #2 Status - Not Available
We are unable to provide the status of your payment right now because:
•We don't have enough information yet (we're working on this), or
•You're not eligible for a payment."
Could the IRS have not processed her 2019 tax return? Otherwise, what info could they still need?
If by some chance she doesn't get her payment, we plan to apply the $600 to her 2020 taxes because she will owe nearly that amount, triggering a small refund. She won't file until late March anyway.