I Got Paid a Duplicate Stimulus Check, and It’s Probably Bad News
Commentary By
Tanner Aliff is a Young Voices associate Contributor who formerly worked on IRS congressional casework.
Last March, I got an extra $1,400 check from the IRS—money I shouldn’t have received. I had already received an economic impact payment earlier in the month from my parents because they claimed me as a dependent on their 2019 return and filed their 2020 taxes a few months after I did. It seems the IRS failed to catch that, and now I am stuck holding an extra $1,400 that doesn’t belong to me.