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For the first TWO WEEKS that the “Check Payment Status” and “Non-Filers” feature was live on the IRS web site, the text suggested that you could use this feature to “check, verify or submit” your current Direct Deposit information.
Nothing on the site made a distinction between “non-filer” YET as opposed to “non- filer” EVER.
A VERY important distinction. As a result.... FOR TWO WEEKS...thousands? millions? of people who HAD filed 2018, but had not YET filed 2019, used this IRS feature believing that the feature was for them. They were “non-filers” YET, and they wanted to make sure the IRS had their DD info so they wouldn’t need to wait extra time for a paper check to be delivered.
They did this mistakenly but there was no wording on the site yet to let people know this. It’s an honest and understandable mistake because whoever wrote the language on the site at the IRS did a s**t job explaining it.
AND.... Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin publicly promised there would be a feature on the IRS web site for people to check and verify their DD info. This turned out to be BS. One month later it still doesn’t exist.
ALSO... Mnuchin said that if you filed a 2018 OR a 2019 return, you would receive your stimulus money via whatever method the IRS had on file for you. This also is total BS. It’s completely untrue. In the real world, (as opposed to the Administrations BS fantasy world) people who filed 2019 returns got their money this way.
At this point.... the ONLY way to provide the IRS with current Direct Deposit information or an updated mailing address, is to file a 2019 return.
It’s not what Treasury promised. It’s not what the Administration told us would be true. But these are the FACTS as known by people who don’t live in a delusional fantasy b** s**t bubble like this Administration does. Not the “alternative B** S**t facts”. The actual FACT facts.
If you only filed a 2018, but not a 2019 YET, you are getting a paper check in rolling order based upon your Adjusted Gross Income from 2018. The promise that 2018 filers would receive stimulus via their DD on file turned out to be BS. It’s not happening. “2018 filers / 2019 not yet filers”, will need to wait for paper checks in the mail. See the paper roll out schedule below.
TODAY.... and as of last week... more than TWO WEEKS AFTER, the roll out of this feature on the IRS web site, the IRS added a yellow warning box which FINALLY clarified that this tool should not be used unless you intend to not file a 2019 EVER. (A permanent “non-filer”... and not just a “not filed YET non-filer”.)
It took TWO WEEKS for this warning box and desperately needed clarification to show up on the IRS site.
Thousands of people... maybe tens of thousands .. maybe millions of people incorrectly used this IRS tool at no fault of their own.
The IRS, the Treasury Department, and Steve Mnuchin specifically, royally screwed up and didn’t provide a clarification for TWO WEEKS.
But wait... it’s even worse than that...
They CLEARLY KNOW, at this point that the tool is being misused and used for the wrong purpose. They likely changed the wording and added the yellow warning box when they noticed a massive surge in non-filer status submissions and realized what was going on.
So, even though they now KNOW that massive numbers of people used this feature incorrectly.... and they now KNOW, that they needed to update the language and add the warning box, and did just that.... BUT....
.... they didn’t add ANY information to tell the people who used the tool mistakenly but understandably, how to retract their non-filer status change.... or what they should now do because they have all been locked out of the e-file system.
NOTHING!
The Treasury, the IRS, and Mnuchin CAUSED this problem. Then they didn’t correct it for more than TWO WEEKS. Then when they did finally correct it, they are providing no published remedy for what all these people need to to to reverse it or correct it or get their e-file access restored.
THIS is why this thread is LOADED with wrong information, stupid information and criticism of ignorant people telling the others, “hey there’s a warning box... it’s your own fault”. No it’s not the users fault.
If you filed a 2019 return you should receive your stimulus money via the method provided on your return IF, you filed this 2019 BEFORE the IRS got to your name on their Paper Check list.
If you have not filed a 2019 return YET, or not filing one EVER, you are on the list to receive a paper check in the mail.
The “2018 filers are fine” promise turned out to be BS.
IF, you filed a 2018 with one set of dependents or children counted... and those numbers are different in 2019 but you haven’t filed your 2019 YET, I don’t know what will happen to you in terms of the dollar amount you will receive. Presumably you will receive a dollar amount based on your 2018 return. If you have added dependents or children in 2019 over 2018, then you are best served by getting your 2019 filed ASAP or you will be shorted money due to you.
Here is the schedule for when you can expect a paper check.
