Register Online for Stimulus Payment if You Don’t File Taxes
The stimulus package that was recently approved will give Americans a one-time check of up to $1,200 ($2,400 for couples). Qualifying dependent children under 17 are eligible for $500 payments with some exclusions. You must have a Social Security number to qualify for a stimulus payment. Non-resident aliens, people without a Social Security number, and adult dependents are not eligible.
Today TurboTax and IRS have partnered together to launch a free stimulus registration website so that Americans who do not file tax returns can get their checks faster. If you are not required to file taxes and don’t receive Social Security benefits, use the free Stimulus Registration for non-tax filers to give the IRS your up-to-date mailing address and direct deposit banking info. The product is free to use and includes a stimulus payment calculator that will tell you how much you should receive from the government.
It is estimated that around 10 million Americans do not file tax returns because they have little or no taxable income. But, since IRS will use federal tax returns to determine and send individual stimulus payments, if you don’t file are at risk of not receiving a payment.
The IRS says it will begin sending electronic payments to those who qualify and have direct-deposit information on file on April 9th. Those who qualify but haven’t provided the IRS with bank information through a tax return, TurboTax’s online portal, or Social Security or railroad retirement benefits tax form will begin receiving paper checks beginning April 24th.
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they are saying my state id is invalid because I have a different name on my social security card that I never change when I marraide my last late husband in 1992 there is a process I must go through and its goning to take a min to get this straighten out will my stimulas check still be waiting for me to claim when I get my name straightened out
There will be an IRS.gov portal soon. When asked about their bait-and-switch, Intuit admitted that it was just a way to scam people into paying them for services:
“Intuit said this was done in error. The company’s spokesman said, “When we realized those creating accounts specifically for the Stimulus Registration product were receiving this general new account email it was turned off.””
https://www.propublica.org/article/millions-of-americans-might-not-get-stimulus-checks-some-might-be-tricked-into-paying-turbotax-to-get-theirs
I am dubious that you are required to “create a Turbo Tax account” just to forward information to the IRS. Like most smart people, I don’t allow the government to hold my money for free and then give it back a year later. I pay my taxes via check the following year, and keep my money the whole time. I guess I’ll wait until the IRS has a portal to provide the info, or just wait for a check.
I filed through mail instead of e-file last year, do I need to do anything?
I bet you that I won’t receive a check because I have not file no taxes in 3 yrs and I’ve been trying to get my disability but keep getting denied and I have no income to file with and I get food stamps I live without any electricity and running water
You are doing pretty good with electric-free internet!
It is so dumb that u can only give bank info if you DONT pay taxes. The IRS is assuming that all taxpayers maintain the same address and bank info from a year ago. I don’t have bank info on file since I didn’t get a refund in 2018 and I moved homes (and even if I did use a bank, I could have easily closed that account by now, so money would just go into a void. And then what?). If they send a paper check to my old address I may never get it, since mail forwarding may expire by the time they start issuing checks. The idiotic presumptuous of the gov to assume that everyone maintains a stable address and bank info is par for the course, as they generally have difficulty dealing w self employed people who receive income irregularly through the year. They r stuck in a “everyone settles down and has a stable home and w2 job” mentality.
Hopefully they come out with something for that purpose soon. Doesn’t make sense that they don’t have a portal of some kind for it.
What if I don’t have the same bank account as the one I did last year when I got my direct deposit?
When that happened to us in the past they eventually got it to our proper bank account but it took a little longer. Not sure if the same thing would happen now or not.
You can’t use this to give you bank info if they don’t have it and you still need to file a tax return, another IRS fail
They should be able to pull your bank info from last year’s tax returns I believe.
Mark, that may only the half of it. For those of us who filed and actually paid taxes (with a paper check) last year, we may not have current bank info on file with the IRS, unless their systems recorded the data on the check, but not on the return itself. (Those who filed and got a refund — yes, bank deposit info would be on file, if entered on the return itself.)
Would be happy to be enlightened differently.
(Mark, I see from your comments below you already comprehend the distinction between those who got e-deposited refunds and those who made payments…. Alas, the turbotax web site makes no such distinction…. so very par for the course. Have a sad, sad feeling that many of us won’t be seeing these checks til sometime in the fall….
(ps, the horror stories of those trying (and failing — for weeks now) to apply for unemployment in some states are legion — with horrendously and now out-of-date web sites…. (CNN just starting to cover this; in my area, corporate owned newspapers have been laying off reporters — the few they had left doing actual investigative reporting) In Virginia, for example, folks apply on-line — but then have no way to know if their application was completed — or not. (even as they’ll be having bad dreams about being told that their application was incomplete — and they won’t be eligible til after they file it right. (and fughetabout trying to get help on the phone or by e-chat….. )
Dude, really? I can’t believe this is real, or at least, it seems too fishy to trust. See explicit warning from the IRS here:
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-issues-warning-about-coronavirus-related-scams-watch-out-for-schemes-tied-to-economic-impact-payments
The IRS reminds taxpayers that scammers may:
Emphasize the words “Stimulus Check” or “Stimulus Payment.” The official term is economic impact payment.
I guess CNBC is scamming you to then? It has been pretty widely reported across news channels.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/04/turbotax-launches-free-tool-to-help-americans-get-stimulus-payments.html
Did TurboTax and the IRS really partner together? The site has no IRS branding of any type. It just looks like a generic stimulus calculator and the regular promotion to file with TurboTax.
There is also no mention on the IRS Coronavirus web site.
Hopefully there is an IRS site coming that will allow us to let us give them our bank info. For those that filed in 2019, and were not due refunds, the IRS may not have that info. We just want to avoid the wait.
That is what has been widely reported on news sites.
I’m heavily CNN and managed to miss it somehow, if they had anything. I guess the word is out some, but not prominent on MSN, Yahoo, and other places like you would think it would be. I am assuming, for now, and an official IRS portal with more functionality is still coming.
Cool, I’ll send this to a family member who didn’t have to file taxes. Thanks!
If you’ve filed taxes you’ll either get an electronic an deposit or a PAPER CHECK. No need to worry about getting your money. They know where u are. 🙂
This is for the people that don’t normally have to file taxes because they don’t earn enough income etc.
That’s for sharing about how to get banking information to the feds. We only pay in so they’ve got no way to electronically send us anything. Have to look into this soon.
They should be able to pull it from previous tax returns if you have ever received a refund. If not I am not sure – I would get with your accountant. This method should allow people to add their bank info but if you already filed I don’t know if using this too would mess everything up etc.
It seems to just offer the options of if you haven’t filed, or if you don’t need to file. If you chose one of these, and the IRS saw you already filed, it may set off some red flags and complicate things further.
Even when you do your taxes with Turbotax it doesn’t prompt for bank info if you don’t have a refund coming (or select to make electronic payment of taxes through account). You have to backdoor it by editing at the forms level.
I’m on social security and hope they’ll look to SS records for info even though I filed for 2018 and 2019 without the bank info. I know they would if you didn’t file.
If this report is accurate, latest guidance for SS recipients is you’ll get a stimulus check in the same manner you receive your SS payments. (If you get them electronically, then hopefully that means you’ll also get the stimulus check electronically…. regardless of what was on your tax form)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/politics/social-security-stimulus-payments/index.html
I’m on disability,will I get a check also does it have to be claimed as an income cause that will mess all my shit up