@Heetaheebis
There's no need to do any of that, unless you just want to; plenty of people - literally millions - received their stimulus money on the Turbo Card, and anyone still can. It's a prepaid debit account like any other, and can receive direct deposits just fine, including payroll and ACH deposits. But if you had fees removed/an RAL, you're going to have to manually enter the information yourself on the "Get My Payment" page, as you know.
As for Santa Barbara Tax "throwing everyone to the wind"...that isn't exactly what happened. First, Santa Barbara Tax is owned by Green Dot, the same company that administrates the Turbo Card. For WHATEVER reason - and the IRS is calling it a "glitch" and Turbo Tax washing their hands of it - the IRS did not retain the direct deposit account and routing numbers of those individuals who had their refunds "garnished" by Santa Barbara to repay RAL's and/or fees. It would be assumed this would have something to do with the way Santa Barbara submitted the information to the IRS initially, since this "glitch" affected TurboTax, Jackson Hewitt, and H&R Block customers, all of whom had fees and/or RALs deducted. But regardless, it happened due to information submitted to the IRS WAY before the stimulus was ever enacted, since (in my case and many others) the IRS didn't have last year's Turbo Card information either, because they didn't save it in 2018 either (if you had fees taken out). But if you're under the impression that Santa Barbara Tax "rejected" the stimulus payments because they weren't getting paid, that isn't what happened. The IRS never sent those payments at all, as the Turbo Card information wasn't stored in their system at all. A rejection would have taken far longer within the IRS system to receive, process, and log. You wouldn't be able to put in your correct information at all at this point, your money would still show as having being sent to Santa Barbara's account.
