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No stimulus payment yet. Errors with direct deposit are only the beginning. After democrats 11th hour attempt to increase the second direct stimulus payment to 2 000 americans will receive only 600 from the long awaited covid relief. The irs says if you check your payment status online and you get a message that says payment status 2 not available that means you will not receive a second stimulus payment.

Knows this so 15 days after it issues your payment it is supposed to send confirmation letters to the most recent address it has on file for you. That letter should explain exactly how the i r s. The latest round of stimulus checks are being issued for 600 which is half of the 1 200 in the first round of payments and far short of the.

Government check for unemployment aid amid covid. Any payment not issued by that date will have to be claimed as a tax credit on a 2020 federal tax return. If you haven t received the money yet that s the time to worry about whether someone else took it.

If you don t get your second stimulus check formally called an economic impact payment or eip by the end of january but think you qualify you can claim it on your 2020 tax return which is. Last month congress approved 600 direct payments for most americans. It will tell you how much your total second stimulus check should be how it ll be paid if there s a delay and more.

Unlike the 1 200 stimulus payments from the cares act that took months to distribute the irs has until january 15 to get the second round of payments out.