I filed married filing jointly with the injured spouse form 8379 on my 2018 taxes (also my 2019 taxes but those are still being processed). I received a stimulus payment of $526 in my bank account which I eventually figured out was our stimulus minus child support arrears owed by my husband. I THOUGHT it was our WHOLE stimulus payment which should have been $2900 - CS arrears = $526. However, we received a letter from US Dept of the Treasury showing an original stimulus amount of ONLY $1450 - CS arrears of $924 (with NO information on which CS case that goes to and I know he still owes more than $924 in arrears since I have it figured out that we should be done paying the arrears between Sept - Nov this year and of course you can't get anyone on the phone) = $526 that was deposited in my bank account.
Now, after CRYING for over an hour wondering WHY we didn't get our full stimulus $2900 and not being able to figure out why only $924 was taken for CS arrears, I FINALLY came across a CRSREPORT Update from Congress.gov that updates the information from the Stimulus payments from 2008 (using 2007 tax returns). In that 2008 CRSReport it stated that for 2007 tax returns for married filing jointly who also filed the form 8379 the stimulus payments were paid out as 50% of the payment to the uninjured spouse and 50% to the injured spouse. So, I'm now wondering if that $1450 in the notice we received was ONLY my husband's 50% of the stimulus payment and MAYBE I should still be receiving my 50% of the stimulus payment of $1450.
After reading that and having a tiny bit of hope on the situation, I came across your answer to someone else who asked about the Form 8379 & stimulus payment. Your answer was DO NOT submit ANOTHER Form 8379 JUST for the stimulus payment, even though the notice we got says the injured spouse should do so if their portion was taken for the husband's CS arrears.... although, maybe that is MEANT to be for people who haven't previously filed an Injured Spouse Form 8379???
Anyway, my question to you is (finally), am I correct in my "findings" that I (as the injured spouse) SHOULD be getting my full 50% of the stimulus payment of $1450 at some point because I had already filed the Form 8379 with my 2018 tax return? Of course the "Get My Status" or whatever it's called only gives me the status of the payment we already received, so I have no way of knowing if another stimulus payment is in the works.
Sorry I provided SOOO much information before getting to my question, so I hope you actually got to my question. Any assistance/knowledge on this would be SOOOO helpful as I'm beyond frustrated not knowing what the heck is going on.... :o(
