Stimulus Check

stevej37 · 05-23-2020, 10:29 AM

I received my virus stimulus check at least two weeks ago.
Today, I get a letter from the potus saying I'm going to get a CARES act payment for the same amount. Is this a second payment or just a late letter?

Baz · Baz's Garage

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Originally Posted by stevej37

I received my virus stimulus check at least two weeks ago.
Today, I get a letter from the potus saying I'm going to get a CARES act payment for the same amount. Is this a second payment or just a late letter?

Late letter. Look at the date.

stevej37 · 05-23-2020, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Baz

Late letter. Look at the date.

May 6...the CARES act statement confused me. Thanks Baz

Dantilla · 05-23-2020, 10:47 AM

Typical.
Why send the letter and check together and pay postage once, when you can pay postage twice?
It's just taxpayer's money, after all....

stevej37 · 05-23-2020, 10:50 AM

^^^ But now I have a letter with his signature on it. Might be worth a lot later. (esp if we have another tp shortage)

KFC911 · 05-23-2020, 10:53 AM

I received mine via direct deposit back in the middle of April (as I recall), then the letter showed up around the first of May.....no double dipping

. Couldn't figure out why my parents (and most folks they knew) didn't have theirs deposited back then (IRS/SS has their acct. info)....but they received checks via mail within the past week. A total fuster cluck sending them out imo.... and none of us "needed" it either. I tip a LOT more with it fwiw...grocery deli workers, take-outs, drive-thru windows, etc.

KFC911 · 05-23-2020, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by stevej37

^^^ But now I have a letter with his signature on it. Might be worth a lot later. (esp if we have another tp shortage)

Tell the bastid to quit sending me letters asking for money then....he ain't getting my stimulus $

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Baz · Baz's Garage

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Originally Posted by Dantilla

It's just taxpayer's money, after all....

Have you ever really given any serious thought to why, as a country....we are in debt?

Forget all the politics. And I mean it.

It's the year 2020 and we are in debt.

It's mind boggling.......why this isn't at the top of everyone's concern.

Sorry for the thread drift...

jrj3rd · 05-23-2020, 02:09 PM

Baz you must have left your account unlocked. Looks like Tabs got to your computer

Baz · Baz's Garage

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Originally Posted by jrj3rd

Baz you must have left your account unlocked. Looks like Tabs got to your computer

I'll take that as a compliment (?)

Scott Douglas · Scott Douglas's Garage

It won't hurt us, Baz, we're too old.

I feel for my kids and their kids though. They will have to live with it.

Mad Max · Mad Max's Garage

This country is SO screwed. It can appear to be vote buying in a sense, but it is a last ditch effort of a dying financial system. System crated back in Sept. 2019 and this is the result.

island911 · 05-25-2020, 08:03 AM

It's not like we stopped producing cars and planes so we could produce war planes and tanks, while sending millions of men (on US payroll) to go break stuff in other countries for a few YEARS!

It's not like we had Amazon and Google server farms blown up...

I get the Eeyore fun of claiming that we are all doomed (or domed) But that is just not true.

(some) People got govt checks to shore up the flow of money. That's it.

fintstone · fintstone's Garage

I have no problem with trying to make the disruption to the economy have as little impact as possible in the hopes of this being a "hiccup" vice a long-term trend. That said, they should have either given it to everyone (if stimulus) or only increased unemployment (if for the unemployed)...instead, they chose to make it income-based social welfare (just another wealth redistribution scheme) when they based it on previous income.