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Originally Posted by ckissick
No kidding. My sister, who still has her job, got a check. My other sister, who's comfortably retired with a gov't pension, got a check. My 89-year old mother got a check, despite no change in her status. A friend who makes $85K per year and is still working at her Silicon Valley job got a check. Even a man who died three years ago got a check!
My wife got laid off and my business has come to a screeching halt. No check for us! And of all the people above, we are the only ones who are supporting kids (2) in college. Of course a stimulus check would make no difference, anyway. But the way the gov't is distributing the checks makes no sense.
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Keep this in mind, the money is designated by the IRS as
Economic Impact Payments, not unemployment payments nor payments to make up for losses of jobs. The "easiest" way to get that money into the hands of the public so
it can be spent in their local communities is through the IRS and the rules it established. Clearly, some individuals are not getting the "free money." The logic, I assume, is those in higher incomes, prior to the shut down, do not need it. Unfortunately, the rules are
broad and crude and you fell between the cracks--you don't qualify because your income was too great
at the time of qualification, but now it has collapsed.
The fact that some still with jobs, the elderly, retired pensioners, got checks is exactly the point of the distribution. Put extra money into their hands so they will spend it. The deceased recipient is the result of the crudeness of the rules. Obviously, a tax return had been filed for him in the past two years, so he received a payment.