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It will be mailed via US Postal snail-mail. (most likely)

 

1) Originally, the IRS and the Administration, said REPEATEDLY, that if you had filed in 2018 OR 2019, you would receive a Direct Deposit to whatever account they had on file. 

 

WRONG: it seems now that if you filed a 2018, but not yet filed a 2019, your stimulus payment is being MAILED.... no Direct Deposit. I can't verify that this was true for 100% of people, but it appears true for may, including me.

 

2) Treasury Secretary Mnuchin said in a live press conference that there would be a provision for people to "verify" their address or DD info. This is why so many people used the "non-filer reporting tool" on the IRS web site, mistakenly.

 

When it first rolled out, this feature looked like the promise that we could verify our DD info through this feature. There was no clarification for "non-filer EVER" vs "non-filer YET".  The clarification and the subsequent yellow colored warning box on the IRS site, to not do this, didn't appear for TWO WEEKS, after the feature rolled out. So, many of us made the mistake.

 

WRONG: There STILL is no toll for verifying Direct Deposit info or verifying address info as promised by the Administration. Promised, but still doesn't exist 4 weeks later. 

 

 

3) The IRS portal for checking the status of stimulus payments is 

 

https://sa.www4.irs.gov/irfof-wmsp/status

 

CRAP: For WEEKS... this has been a relatively useless resource for millions of people because it would report "Status Unknown" for millions of people. Also, the web site is programmed to lock you out for 24 hours after an inquire. You can only check once every 24 hours. This was intentional so not to overload the servers with too many simultaneous inquires.

 

For an entire MONTH this site reported that my status was "Unknown".

But... 3 days ago on April 27th 2020, my status changed to "Your payment will be mailed on May 1st."

 

Keep checking back. They are slowly adding people to the database and updating status. 

 

This is a link which shows the official published timeline for when people will receive their Stimulus Check. Scroll down about half way to see the bulleted list of Adjusted Gross Incomes and Dates.

 

https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/04/21/heres-precisely-when-youll-get-your-stimulus-check.aspx

 

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