A place for folks having stimulus check issues to vent and compare notes

@Stuffedquahog One of my sons had a part-time on campus job (sophomore, he also worked freshman year). He worked 8-10 hours per week and the only reason he stopped was campus closure, move on line study. He would have continued until the end of the semester. Covid 19 is the reason work ended.

I read the guidelines and this qualifies IMHO. A former co-worker and I discussed, her daughter had a car payment and I’m not sure if hers was work study or just on-campus (and note she attends a different school).

There is an online article and a poster above noted, some schools continuing to pay their student employees. My son has gotten no notification and no direct deposits since campus closed about 5 weeks ago.

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I agree. And the rest of this year too. We will have a bunch of 2018 and 2019 entities and some individuals to amend because of the other retroactive tax law changes in the bill. It’s going to be a nightmare.

And today I read that the next round they are proposing other tax changes such as repealing SALT which will mean yet more amendments.

@snowball - I don’t know for sure, but I’m assuming they have it since it’s the address on my last 2 years’ returns.

I seem to remember that state unemployment benefits were taxable on federal return but not PA state return.

Tried yet again. Still payment status not available. Grr.

The website now states that SSA recipients information is not in their database. Only took them 6 days to figure that out.

No. I found that information last week, on the 15th in the FAQs on the site and posted that info it in this very thread. Post #30.

“ Anyway, in the FAQS it gives explanations for why your payment status isn’t available, among other things. One is if you file SSA 1099 forms the IRS has to get your direct deposit info from SSA. Same if you worked for the railroad (who has their own SS like system.) And they said, they are working on it getting info from these other agencies.”

Except now it says it on the page where you are told there is no information match.

Still payment status not available here too, @swimcatsmom. I’m not even sure why I check on a daily basis.

That still doesn’t mean they “just figured It out”.

It wasn’t difficult to even find before.

There was a link right on that page that said ‘status not available’, for FAQs.

I initially thought (hoped) it was because of the SSA. Until I asked around and found at least 2 people I know with SSA on their returns that received the direct deposit last Wednesday. I work with a lady with SSA who did not receive it but was able to sign onto the site and enter DD info. There have been also been several posts here of SSA people on this thread that have received it (I asked that question several pages back when I was trying to make sense of it) Including some deceased people. And then there are a lot of SSA people who have not received it and can’t sign on.

So it may be related to SSA (I think it is) but it is most certainly not being applied consistently.

I have a friend who collects SS…direct deposit. He never does anything electronically with his taxes…files a paper return. He has a bunch of other types of income in addition to his SS with a bunch of schedules on his taxes.

He got his $1200 direct deposit this week into the account his SS gets deposited to.

Go figure.

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Did he get tax refund in 2018 due to his other income that was direct deposited?

People who are on SS but got a refund, the IRS has their direct deposit information. People who owed money - the IRS doesn’t have that information. SSA has that info because most SS beneficiaries get their SS checks by direct deposit.

@TomSrOfBoston

My friend has never given the IRS direct deposit info for a refund. He gets a check mailed to him for any tax refund. He was surprised he got the stimulus money in his account too. The only ones who have that direct deposit info…SS. Not the IRS.

We will need more than one person to verify that. With the sample of one, it could be anything. It is not impossible that he gave his DD info to IRS at some point and forgot If so, IRS would have the necessary info whether he remembers or not.

It can also be true that SSA is giving the info to IRS in batches. I doubt they could upload all that data to the IRS all at once.

In the FAQS they said they are working on getting the info from other agencies (SSA and whatever agency deals with retired railroad employees.)

Even the IRS can’t handle issuing the money all at once. That is why they are doing it in waves.

You can file now and pay later. If you file now with TurboTax you can even list a future date for the Gov to take your money by ACH.

@Iglooo I’ve known this person forever. I can tell you…if he says the only direct deposit info has been given to SS, he isn’t making that up.