“It was a wave of emotions. I went from thinking $600 wasn’t enough to thinking ‘oh my God this is all that I have’ once I thought I wasn’t getting it,” says Trent, 26, who was furloughed in the spring and then laid off in July from his job as a transporter at a hospital.
But he was elated when he received his check Thursday via direct deposit.
“I needed the money right now, Trent added. It was a blessing that I received it.
What happened?
Over the past week, the IRS started sending out the second round of stimulus payments that are worth up to $600 for individuals and each of their child dependents. Millions of payments were set to be directly deposited in accounts the IRS had on file by Jan. 4.
Stimulus checks: TurboTax begins depositing economic impact payments for millions of customers after IRS error Jessica Menton, USA TODAY
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Millions of TurboTax and H&R Block customers say their stimulus checks were deposited in the wrong bank accounts this week, forcing many of them to wait longer for the badly needed aid after struggling financially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
But some have reported that the money has started to hit their bank accounts after the snafu.
Christopher Trent of Roanoke, Virginia, is one of those Americans. Trent, who used TurboTax to prepare his 2019 tax returns, was confused when he saw a “not available status message when he checked his account on the IRS Get My Payment tool, which was created to help Americans track the status of their stimulus money.
“It was a wave of emotions. I went from thinking $600 wasn’t enough to thinking ‘oh my God this is all that I have’ once I thought I wasn’t getting it,” says Trent, 26, who was furloughed in the spring and then laid off in July from his job as a transporter at a hospital.
But he was elated when he received his check Thursday via direct deposit.
“I needed the money right now, Trent added. It was a blessing that I received it.
What happened?
Over the past week, the IRS started sending out the second round of stimulus payments that are worth up to $600 for individuals and each of their child dependents. Millions of payments were set to be directly deposited in accounts the IRS had on file by Jan. 4.
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