Stimulus Debit Card Aarp

The debit card will be sent in a white envelope that prominently displays the u s.

Stimulus debit card aarp. Information included with the card will explain that this is an economic impact payment. People who don t have their information on file with the irs are now receiving debit cards. The cards are going out to certain eligible taxpayers who filed tax returns but for whom the irs doesn t have bank account information.

Some will get debit cards. It has the visa name on the front of the card according to the irs and the issuing bank metabank n a on the back of the card. The debit cards can be used to withdraw cash from an atm transfer funds to.

The debit cards went to certain taxpayers eligible for a stimulus payment who filed federal tax returns for 2019 or 2018 but for whom the internal revenue service irs didn t have bank account information to make a direct deposit. 8 the irs advised those who hadn t received a direct deposit to watch their mail for either a paper check or a prepaid debit card. Some people who received paper checks in 2020 might get their stimulus payment via debit card this time or vice versa.

Alex juarez with the aarp in arizona told ksaz he expects many cases of seniors who are routinely targeted with phishing attempts by mail throwing away the envelopes thinking they are a scam. Jennifer feuerstein from aarp says people are still receiving stimulus money from the government. Irs stimulus check funds on debit cards mailed in plain envelopes to people without bank accounts on file for the irs are a focus for scammers and at risk of being thrown away the aarp warned.

It would be a lifeline for us. Instead the stimulus payment which the irs calls an economic impact payment eip is loaded onto the debit card. The agency will send out 8 million eip cards to some eligible individuals in the second wave of economic stimulus.

Stimulus checks not getting into hands of millions of low income americans aarp said some of its members did toss their payments.