Payments will be deposited into the same bank account that customers received their 2019 tax refund, though updates may not be immediately reflected on the Get My Payment tool, she said. Stimulus payments for millions of TurboTax customers affected by the IRS error will be deposited starting Friday, Ashley McMahon, a spokeswoman at TurboTax, told USA TODAY in an email. It's unclear how many Americans are missing their stimulus checks, but about 13 million people may see a delay in getting their money after the IRS sent the funds to bank accounts that were closed or invalid, according to tax preparation company Jackson Hewitt. “Because of the speed at which the law required the IRS to issue the second round of Economic Impact Payments, some payments may have been sent to an account that may be closed or, is or no longer active, or unfamiliar,” the IRS said earlier this week. In an error, the agency sent some checks to TurboTax and H&R Block instead of their customers, the tax preparers said. 4.īut some TurboTax and H&R Block customers were surprised to see the last four digits of their bank account numbers were incorrect when they checked their payment status on the IRS website. Millions of payments were set to be directly deposited in accounts the IRS had on file by Jan. Over the past week, the IRS started sending out the second round of stimulus payments that are worth up to $600 for individuals and each of their child dependents. “I needed the money right now," Trent added. "It was a blessing that I received it." I went from thinking $600 wasn’t enough to thinking ‘oh my God this is all that I have’ once I thought I wasn’t getting it,” says Trent, 26, who was furloughed in the spring and then laid off in July from his job as a transporter at a hospital.īut he was elated when he received his check Thursday via direct deposit. When will the extra $300 in unemployment benefits start?: These states are already paying the bonusĪre you getting a stimulus check?: Here’s who doesn't get one When Trent contacted TurboTax earlier this week, he was told that if he paid his tax preparation fees with his refund, then his second stimulus payment may have been sent to a temporary bank account established by the tax preparer, which is no longer active. Trent, who used TurboTax to prepare his 2019 tax returns, was confused when he saw a “not available" status message when he checked his account on the IRS Get My Payment tool, which was created to help Americans track the status of their stimulus money. Millions of TurboTax and H&R Block customers say their stimulus checks were deposited in the wrong bank accounts this week, forcing many of them to wait longer for the badly needed aid after struggling financially during the COVID-19 pandemic.īut some have reported that the money has started to hit their bank accounts after the snafu.Ĭhristopher Trent of Roanoke, Virginia, is one of those Americans. Watch Video: Blacks, Latinos and the poor less likely to receive stimulus checks
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