anyone in the us get their 1200? (covid stimulus relief payment)

ysi?

A friend said she received a notice hers will be deposited on Wednesday, but she's the only person I've heard anything like that from. I certainly haven't.

my best friend got hers, her boyfriend didn't. one of my old friends from Oregon got his.

I'm not stupid enough to give my bank account information to Donald Trump. If a check ever lands in my PO box, hooray.

so you've ever direct deposited when you filed?

*never

Nope. We always write a check, or asked them to send us one back when we used to get refunds.

If you've mailed a check, they have all the bank account info they'd have if you did EFT.

unperson banks in Switzerland

to get the check you have to meet a man in a suit who makes you sign a large leather ledger, then takes a key which he has on a necklace to open a safety deposit box that contains the check

then Matt Damon kills you

Mine showed up as a pending transaction in my account a few days ago; should be there Wednesday.

i didn't get mine yet but proactively spent it on Slayer Funko Pops

I'm not stupid enough to give my bank account information to Donald Trump.

...

We always write a check

this is just too perfect

unperson i think you're going to have to go to some website treasury is launching on wednesday (according to mnuchin at the trump campaign coronavirus event earlier). he said that everyone who was going to receive it via direct deposit would get it by wednesday, and that everyone else should go to the website to get it. which to me, seemed like the usual "gift card" grift - they know not everyone will go to the website and get it that didn't receive it via direct deposit, so they'll save a bunch of money and fuck over people who are too busy taking care of kids or working to read the fine print.

maybe it's conditional that each IRS employee can see only one digit of the account number/routing number

wut if the government gets my social security number next?!

got the payment, tonight. direct deposit style.

hell yeah pimp

i wait. still eye weight

WOW I applied for the self-employed wage subsidy from the NZ government earlier this afternoon, and got a notification it's been paid just now, literally *hours later*

— Andrew Todd (@mistertodd) April 15, 2020

direct deposit, got it a few hours ago

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/politics/trump-name-checks-coronavirus/index.html

FFS.

Mine arrived as of this morning, but not my boyfriend’s.

we just got ours. plus 500 per kid

I got mine this morning. To the credit card bill it goes!

got mine but it's a weird amount. originally thought we wouldn't get anything then realized it was based off taxable income, not gross; but what I received was $1,988.55 which is about $1k less than I'd assumed we'd get (married, one kid). Maybe it decreases the higher the income before it cuts off entirely?

Yes -- this morning. The full amount. It's going toward the Campari fund.

apparently there is a maximum number of times you an try and enter your direct deposit info on the IRS website and you get locked out for 24 hours (just happened to me...) so... there you go

akm:

Eligible individuals with adjusted gross income up to $75,000 for single filers, $112,500 for head of household filers and $150,000 for married filing jointly are eligible for the full $1,200 for individuals and $2,400 married filing jointly. In addition, they are eligible for an additional $500 per qualifying child.

For filers with income above those amounts, the payment amount is reduced by $5 for each $100 above the $75,000/$112,500/$150,000 thresholds. Single filers with income exceeding $99,000, $136,500 for head of household filers and $198,000 for joint filers with no children are not eligible and will not receive payments.

not to speak out of school but if my math is right your joint file is a little under $170k?

found the same thing....yeah, from what I recall (I didn't do taxes for this year yet, so this was last year). I'm still not sure why it's such a weird amount though and not something rounded off and normal. 55 cents, really?
anyway luckily this was direct deposited so I do not have to see the president's serial killer scrawl

Mine arrived as of this morning, but not my boyfriend’s.

― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit),Wednesday, April 15, 2020 2:32 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

exact same.

trying to be here for your disappointment while i have a shit-eating grin on my face.

anyone else feel like getting money for not working is a thing they could do for the rest of their lives?

I've being getting away that shit for nearly a decade now, might as well carry on to the death lol!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSfjtdnUsls

Haven't filed taxes yet (pretty sure we owe this year, instead of expecting a refund as usual). But because we got a refund last year, our direct deposit info was already on file. It seems to have arrived last night or early this morning.

I didn't quite understand the amount but whatevs

Gonna divide it among charities unless some unexpected curveball hits us in the next two weeks

Got my prorated deposit, will mentally add it to the pile of money I need to be giving away

^ bill gates over here!

Pfft

i got mine too

My wife and I got ours by direct deposit yesterday.

congrats everyone

it really sucks to think that other people who need it more than me aren't getting it.

but not enough to enjoy having it for a second .. the truth is i've been right above the poverty line for years so

i'm paying all my bills for the month then buying some motherfucking weed

Yeah, I've maintained my regular work life through all this (I telecommute already), but I'm not rich and barely even comfortable, so $1200 goes a hell of a long way.

Went to the IRS Get My Payment site this morning... IRS doesn't have my direct deposit info (they should, I got my refund for tax year 2018 via DD) but their update banking info form crashes if the amount owed/amount refunded on your tax return is zero... and for 2019, that's what mine is. Oh well, maybe I'll get a paper check this summer sometime.

(I'm still employed, so I don't really need it urgently)

anyone else feel like getting money for not working is a thing they could do for the rest of their lives?

― i am a horse girl (map),Wednesday, April 15, 2020 3:02 PM (two hours ago

A million times yes but only until one of us has a health emergency w/o insurance. o__O

Due to totally unpredictable circumstances I'm banking money even making my usual monthly donations plus throwing money at causes that cross my soc med. Think I'm gonna give it away a la silby. It's true I have no idea how long I'm going to be out of work so there's def an argument about saving for later, but there are more ppl who don't have the necessities for survival right now.

someone who knows something explain this to me: if i haven't filed my taxes yet this year, how do they determine if i'm eligible?

Not to preach, sorry. I also don't have a family so there's not as much responsibility on me to plan for the future for others besides myself.

It's just hard to imagine going back to work after this.

xp your taxes from 2018?

they use your tax return from 2018 if you haven't filed your 2019 returns yet

there's a lot of people who $1200 is going to be such a big deal for. wonder if the will help trump's reelection

this even

If people are still unable to work in July, I doubt this one payment in April/May will endear anyone to Trump that much. They're still going to be in dire straits.

I suggest incorporating yourself as a cruise line and applying for stimulus funding.

They're still going to be in dire straits

Hey remember that song "Money for Nothing"?

crewsh jam

bank balance indicates I have it

I checked the IRS site and it said I qualify for it, but they don't have my direct deposit info even though I've e-filed for years. Go to step 2, which is entering 2019 AGI, refund amount, tracking and routing. Site says "your info doesn't match our info, gtfo." I email my tax preparer, who actually said "maybe the internet is slow" to me.

$2400 hit our account this morning. We’re probably gonna buy a huge TV.

xp jfc!

I got mine this morning -- $600 to credit card #1, $300 to credit card #2, kept the other $300 for now. ... feeling like keeping my credit "good to excellent" is strategic in case things get worse and I need to get a "real" loan.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVqNWqFX0AI2xlg.png

Site says "your info doesn't match our info, gtfo." I email my tax preparer, who actually said "maybe the internet is slow" to me.

when did you file?

I got mine this morning -- $600 to credit card #1, $300 to credit card #2, kept the other $300 for now. ... feeling like keeping my credit "good to excellent" is strategic in case things get worse and I need to get a "real" loan.

― sarahell,Wednesday, April 15, 2020 8:04 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

good advice

late March. He said he got e-file confirmation 3/31

March 31st -- it is possible that it isn't in their system. Were you due a refund for the year and if so, have you received it?

Got mine. Mom got hers. Dad got his.

Brother and his gf got nothing.

Trump hates professional actors

hey just to make extra sure, the filing deadline is extended to July right? Or do I need to go blaze thru turbotax rn

looks like yes

since I reside in Canada I won't be getting a check cheque, but I did receive my absentee ballot for the Oregon primary today, so I got that going for me

filing deadline extended until July.

One of my clients who moved to Israel last year got her $1200 today, and she had no idea why she had received $1200!

I got a refund but I applied it toward my quarterly estimated payments.

Mine paid me back for the 1k i loaned a friend

ohhhh ... did you try entering the refund amount as "0"?

And the 300 i loaned another friend's business. So it's p much gone already but it did what i wanted it to.

My friend also got her federal unemployment. Virginia seems on top of it.

Florida? They're sending fed unemployment by paper checks every week.

Rick Scott left quite a legacy

WmC: as in, if I were you, I would try with the actual refund amount from 2019, and then try with "0" (in case they map the field onto the amount actually refunded to you). If neither works, then my guess is that you have filed "too recently" to be in their system right now.

xp Neanderthal -- oh, don't get me started on California! The much promised Unemployment for self-employed people --- they are saying you can't even apply for another 2 weeks until they get their system in place

xp - I can try that tomorrow I guess. The site told me I've tried too many times today and I'm blocked out until then.

Thanks for the advice, sarahell, you're helping me a lot more than the guy I actually pay. (not being sarcastic)

Thanks! I am actually licensed to do the thing that guy does.

I know, I'm tempted to give you my business.

hahaha i would give a discount to all ilxors!

ohhhh ... did you try entering the refund amount as "0"?

if you enter zero in the amount owed or amount refunded, the site throws an error... since I had that problem, I poked around online and I'm not alone. maybe they'll fix it sometime soon.

ugh ...

Silby, the federal filing deadline is extended but check with your state as well. Normally your state return requires numbers from the federal one.

Hereabouts state returns need to be done May 1 so we need to compete the federal form first

I live in WA home of the Most Regressive State Tax Regime In The Country, so no state income tax

You and Alaska always keeping Texas out of the #1 spot

and alaska has oil wealth payments!

So apparently anybody who filed and OWED taxes in 2018 and 2019 and paid via EFT didn't get refunds as they legally can't use that bank account for stimulus. I guess because different authorizations legally.

And you're supposed to be able to enter your info in, but lots of people got that "Please try again" message suggesting they couldn't confirm their eligibility. IRS claims there were server congestion issues and that this caused an error message, and that was being used as the "default" error message. And might go away when you try again when its less busy.

Wtf? Good "default" error message guys.

The error message I got implied they had no record of me filing taxes in 2018. Cool cool

“Payment Status Not Available.” Just tried again.

Also they don’t have clear info on how to enter your ssn and address. Dashes? Commas? Apartment number? Who knows!

Also is this going to be mailed to my old apartment?

Yeah, I got the same 'Payment status not available' message + no direct deposit thus far. I expect basically nothing from these fuckos so I will be neither disappointed nor surprised if the money never comes through.

I expect basically nothing from these fuckos so I will be neither disappointed nor surprised if the money never comes through.

This is where I'm at. OTOH my mom emailed this morning to say "I got my direct deposit. Whoo hoo. I still despise Trump."

“Payment Status Not Available.” Just tried again.

Also they don’t have clear info on how to enter your ssn and address. Dashes? Commas? Apartment number? Who knows!

This thing about how if using a tax preparer makes things harder?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/16/coronavirus-cares-stimulus-check

I dunno. I've only ever used hrblock and things arrived fine. We haven't even filed yet; they went by last year's.

That is infuriating because it's not a new scenario. It also cropped up in 2008's Stimulus, but they warned people about that issue then.

Not a peep this year. I looked to see if they addressed it this year.....like what you expect all the civilians to remember fuckin' 12 years ago?

Apparently you have to have filed your 2019 return already? I sent our stuff to my tax person in March but haven’t checked if anything’s been filed since they pushed the due date til July as I am in no hurry to pay money

i didn't file mine and I got it.

i owe as well and no way i'm paying in advance now that they bumped

Neanderthal’s explanation about not being able to get a direct deposit to the same account from which you had money withdrawn from taxes owed is what I suspected for why I hadn’t gotten a direct deposit and why the irs site said it needed more info from me, good to see someone corroborate that

got that shit blew that shit

Weird, I’m pretty sure that I wrote a physical check for taxes last year because i didn’t want to make it easy for them, plus I remember really pondering the implications of writing FUCK MNUCHIN in the memo spot (I decided against it).

Glad to see some of y'all are getting mad paid. Allow me to live vicariously through tales of yr newfound riches.

That fuckin website is still all *confused shrug*, mailbox is still empty, I'm never gonna see that shit.

Our deposit came through yesterday. My partner and I are incredibly lucky in that both of our jobs haven't been impacted & likely wont be (shes literally involved in manufacturing chemicals being used in covid vaccine research), so we just sent a big chunk of it to the local food bank.

My payment status is also "Not Available", even though Ifile every year (though not 2019 yet). I suspect I'm gonna have to work a bit to get my 1200

Glad to see some of y'all are getting mad paid. Allow me to live vicariously through tales of yr newfound riches.

Woot! Down payment on a sweet '08 Toyota Corolla!

Maybe enough for some bitchin rims as well.

Oh yeah, that's the sweet Robin Leach action I was hopin' for.

Got mine on the 15th

Glad to see some of y'all are getting mad paid. Allow me to live vicariously through tales of yr newfound riches.

I was finally able to get a new desktop pc to replace my 10 year old relic. This thing's gonna croak any day.

Got it, used it to pay back my quixotic wedding fund.

Oh no wait, I used it to bet against the Oscars happening next year.

I get the status not available message too even though I definitely filed taxes for 2018.

same

I haven't lived in the usa for almost six years but I have to file american taxes every year anyway (because the usa is a bullshit country). am I gonna get this ca$h too? haven't filed 2019 taxes yet though (the deadlines are a lot different if you're not a current resident) so maybe I gotta do that first.

if you filed last year, yeah

yeah we have to file every year thanks to the great law that distinguishes the usa from like every other country in the world and makes all income of us citizens taxable by the usa, even if you've never lived in the usa

shame on you for not being a corporation

technically speaking, the eligibility for this "refundable tax credit" is based on your earnings in 2020, but they're advancing it to you using your 2019 income (or if you haven't filed, your 2018 income). but they've said if you get the stimulus this year and you technically shouldn't have been eligible based on 2020, they won't make you pay it back.

likewise if you find yourself ineligible this year (ie you made like 123,000 in 2019 when you filed), and then based on your 2020 income, you should have been (maybe you got laid off this year nad made like 50,000), you'll get the "refundable tax credit" of $1,200/$2,400 next year.

all income of us citizens taxable by the usa, even if you've never lived in the usa

you aren't eligible for foreign income exclusion? or do you make so much money that some of it is taxable? The foreign exclusion is pretty large

yeah my partner and I have yet to pass the exclusion mark. It is still definitely a PITA to file every year though

Euler is in France though, so the size of the exclusion might not seem so large compared to Canada (since it's in USD)

No I don’t make much money! We don’t have to pay taxes now, for that reason, but we do have to file each year, and if we started making bank then the USA would get a cut. Also we have to deal with FATCA too, so the USA knows how money I make in France.

so, you're annoyed that you have to file forms?

also fyi -- i can try and dig up the notice in question, but the IRS did say a week or so ago, that the stimulus payments aren't all coming at once, and they are paying the lower income people first, so if you aren't "in the system" yet, it could be that your income (from the most recent year filed, either 2018 or 2019) is on the higher end of the eligibility scale.

hmm. by most standards we are well-off but got it immediately. Could possibly be because of kids?

idk -- I haven't filed for 2019 yet, and I got my payment Wednesday, but I had direct deposit info from 2018 from a refund because I was super careful about paying enough in estimated payments so I wouldn't have to owe.

i make right under the pay rate that gets phased out, so I'm not sure why they paid me so early.

I did have two friends get paid just today.

I suspect direct deposit is a factor. I always get a paper check, so will probably have to wait until Trump personally signs however many millions he has piled up on his desk.

sarahel—-I guess yes? Forms are no fun! And I have a slew of them as a French resident. The USA is the only country that enforces a right to tax non-resident citizens on their foreign income. That’s bullshit. We have to repost everything financial to the USA government despite their having nothing to do with our lives (we have a USA bank still but receive no income there). For that reason I’d have expected that we wouldn’t get a USA stimulus check but it seems that we will.

IRS site says I'm getting my Trumpbucks on the 22nd, fuck yeah

Just in time to pay rent.

can I use my trump bucks to buy an obama phone

My mom FINALLY got her unemployment claim filed. Assuming it doesn't get comedy denied, she'll make more money in 4 months than she has in decades.

Which is good cos otherwise I'll have to pay her rent until social security arrives, and the medical bills

"According to information that we have on file, we cannot determine your eligibility for a payment at this time."
same as it's been

(checks watch again, taps toe impatiently)

Thanks, Obama.

Progress! Today when I went to the IRS page, instead of status not available, it asked me for my tax return and bank routing info. Now the payment should be coming although I don't have a date yet. I see the tool had maintenance last night, I'm wondering if that was a factor in the change.

Cool, site's finally working for me, too. Now I just have to dig my '18 tax materials out of whatever the hell box they're in. Probably get the check before I find them, honestly.

Okay, lol, I realized I could get the info I needed from the IRS site, went that route, entered everything into the seemingly-functional stimulus portal...aaaaaaand could not be completed due to technical difficulties. Fuck off.

trumpoleans

trumpoolah

trumpero

So excited for papa Trump to open his big glorious wallet for me

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had exactly the same experience as OL

They haven't fixed the zero filer error yet (if you owe/were refunded $0), maybe after the scheduled updates this weekend.

yeah, that's what got me.

Me too.

How could the IRS ever have been expected to account for something like this, I ask you.

we should privatize it, just like the post office -- give their powers to a more efficient, competent private corporation.

Run the IRS like a business!

For today only, get 25% off your taxes if you file today.

Also, if you file today, we will throw in a free subscription to Rolling Stone!

finally I can get my tax refund in the form of Bed Bath and Beyond gift cards

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n.b. back in the day, if you signed up to take the IRS Enrolled Agent Exam (basically the equivalent of the bar exam for tax professionals), you could check a box and request exam study materials free of charge. I did this, this was back in 2003. They sent two large boxes of just about every single tax form and publication to my home.

For anyone who was getting error 109 trying to enter zero owed/zero refunded on the bank account info page, looks like they fixed it last night. I was able to complete the process just now. Give it a try.

yep, went through. Thanks for the heads up!

^^^ thanks! Mine went through. I filed jointly with my wife so I'm not sure if both went through. I tried doing the same process with her SSN and birthdate and it went to a Logged Out screen so maybe?

hmm, sounds like it might still have you logged in with your own account... I'd fire up an incognito window in your browser and try to enter her info again.

Just tried again and it says hers is scheduled for deposit as well.

result! sounds like the turnaround is 1-2 weeks for direct deposits once you enter your info

Sweet, I think it actually worked. And I know it's just a coincidence that I hit 'submit' and immediately received two spam emails under my primary address which is generally entirely spam-free, I know that it must be a coincidence but still.

How do you think they're paying for your 1200, OL?

Finally got my payment. The 2-week turnaround after entering your info seems to be the case. I told myself and others I'm banking this money in anticipation of traveling when the social distancing guidelines relax.

Mine came through today too

got mine last week, just a week after entering my info

had signed up for electronic deposit but for some reason it came as a paper check

got mine this AM; was finally able to put in DD info... whenever that started working. 10 days ago? more or less.

got a paper check in the mail on monday

also got my direct deposit today! I entered my bank info on April 25th so it took 11 days. Guessing they are doing waves of direct deposits once a week?

I know a lot of frustrated grad students who filed with foreign addresses in 2018/2019 and now can't even get past the verification screen.

xp- that's how they normally process tax refunds (in batches once a week), so that is a very good guess

cleared by direct deposit yesterday.

Arrived via direct deposit today. Now we get to start pushing it out to some places where we know it is needed: some of it to people we know, some to non-profits like the food bank.

Like Hadrian, I also got my paper check after putting in my direct deposit. No complaints

Ummmmmm...still nuthin. This is because I spent the last four years calling Trump a worthless fuck, isn't it?

eh, i didn't get mine yet either

all that sucking didn't pay off huh

haven't gotten mine yet but also haven't gotten a free day to spend on the phone which I assume is the length of time it'll take to pry it free from phone menu hell

we got our check yesterday! mailed by post to our address in paree! I was not expecting that.

Got my check on Saturday, deposited it on Monday. Good thing, too, since I lost my job last week.

lol Euler good for you for filing US taxes every year :)

yeah thanks to the usa for requiring that we do that! for once it pays off.

in response bought a new se for my oldest so we are stimulating the us economy with it, in some remote way at least

I didn’t do anything online and got my check at the end of April. Two weeks later I got a letter saying the check was on its way.

have not gotten mine yet, am worried I just won't (we have a lot of mail theft)