[jyl]

This was news about a month ago. The CARES Act did not have any language saying that deceased persons were not to receive checks, or that those persons’ estates were required to return checks received. The government pays money to the estates of deceased persons all the time, its not unprecedented. The IRS then issued guidance that such checks were to be returned. It may not have the legal authority to do so. But realistically no one is going to fight the IRS over $1200. I’d return the checks too.