@slim pickings What "bait and switch" occurred? Did you receive $1400 per person in 2021? Check your bank account for deposits---see if you received $1400 for six people sometime after mid-March of 2021. If you received it, you cannot get that 3rd stimulus twice. When the tax software asked if you received the 3rd EIP --- how did you answer? Did you say no? Was $8400 on line 30 of your Form 1040?
Does your IRS online account show that you received $8400 in 2021? Check the accounts for EACH spouse--they assign half to each spouse on a joint return. Each spouse would have been sent letter 6475 showing $4200 ---added together it would be the $8400 for a married couple and four dependents.
LOTS of people have made mistakes this year with the recovery rebate credit by "forgetting" that they received the $1400 per person stimulus checks last year. They answered no to the questions for the recovery recovery rebate credit and put the $1400 per person on line 30 of their returns. But you cannot get it twice, so the IRS removes it when it is there by mistake.
Try checking your online account with the IRS
https://www.irs.gov/payments/your-online-account
Does the IRS show that you received a $1400 stimulus or EIP check in 2021? Did you receive it? When you were asked on your tax return did you say no? Was there $1400 on line 30 of your tax return?
If the IRS says you got $1400 last year but you did not receive it you can have it traced.
LOST THIRD STIMULUS CHECK
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/questions-and-answers-about-the-third-round-economic-impact-payment-top...
If you need to trace a payment that the IRS says has been issued to you, mail or fax a completed IRS Form 3911, Taxpayer Statement Regarding Refund.
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