Why was my stimulus check rejected?

[ReginaM]

Have you already filed your 2018 or 2019 Tax Return?  Did you also try to Register for the Stimulus Payment?  If so, this is filing two returns for the same period and you can only have one return per year.  

[jetplanej417]

I filed in 2018 only. I entered information and said I was accepted but was told I'd be emailed for eligibility before bieng accepted. It still says my stimulus has been accepted but i dont know what the email means.  

[jetplanej417]

Please help me. I'm unemployed and in dire need of these funds. 

[greegrass]

Received a letter  from IRS stating they found an error on my form 1040SR,which affects the following area of   my tax return. Recovery Rebate Credit.  I never received the third stimulus check of $1400.00.  I dont understand what they are talking about. Do you? Since you are the ones who filled outg the tax return.

[xmasbaby0]

@greegrass Check your bank account for a deposit of $1400 sometime after mid-March of 2021.   If you did NOT get that $1400 then you may have been eligible to get the recovery rebate credit of $1400 on line 30 of your 2021 Form 1040.   If you did already receive the $1400 last year then line 30 should have been blank.

And...check your online account with the IRS to see if the IRS says you got the $1400.

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.