To be honest, this would probably have been a major headache for TurboTax to implement for us to get our stimulus. Having working in a large company where they needed major systems to work together like Oracle, inventory systems, sales systems, all from different software makers, it is a major pain in the butt and very time consuming to try to get different databases to talk to each other and share information. It would not be as simple as gathering an Excel list of all the names of us who had the Santa Barbara bank info at the IRS, SS numbers and new bank info and simply giving it to the IRS. All these systems are interconnected and have been specifically programmed to accept entries from each other in a certain way.
Lots of planning and testing would have to be done to ensure that only the specific database entries that were needed were scooped out and transferred over to IRS databases, and then inserted over there, without causing any problems to anything else in their systems working properly. Probably somewhat manually done. Something like that would normally be an IT project that would be slated to take place over months, not days. And when you're talking cutting checks with real money, not just orders or inventory numbers, it would have to be verified very carefully to be correct.
It just goes to show how our systems have gotten so complex, that it makes doing seemingly simple tasks too absurdly long to even implement, and keeps companies from being able to respond to situations like this.
