Late Tax Rebates

[reeses16 8]

Curious, is anyone else late receiving their Rebate/Stimulus Payment? We were supposed to get ours direct deposited last week, but its not here. Same for my parents.

[Sinergy 3]

same here too

[JandC 0]

Nope....not got it yet.....but I suspect its because we used H&R Block which means the IRS doesn't have the right details to direct deposit our account...so it will come by mail instead.

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

not yet here, was supposed to be last week also.

[reeses16 8]

Silly me, I thought since they started sending them out early that I'd get it on time.

Yeah, we used TurboxTax to file. We paid using direct debit. I called the IRS Rebated hotline....long story short the automated message said that while they couldn't tell me any thing about my rebate specifically, that I should expect my check on June 6th, please allow 2 weeks for delivery. Standard recorded message. I guess we sit tight.

[reeses16 8]

This morning on Good Morning America they mentioned that some people had not received their checks yet because a "glitch" in the IRS program deposited checks into the wrong accounts. I hope they're just behind.

[~krakatoa~ 27]

Nope....not got it yet.....but I suspect its because we used H&R Block which means the IRS doesn't have the right details to direct deposit our account...so it will come by mail instead.

We also used H&R Block's services, and we have direct deposit. You have to provide IRS your account numbers in your return (I made sure H&R Block got it covered).

Edited May 15, 2008 by krakatoa

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

direct deposit into an account takes 2 weeks for delivery..... funny.

[Sinergy 3]

direct deposit into an account takes 2 weeks for delivery..... funny.

yea. i used turbo tax, and direct deposit, my last 2 social are 02, shouldve been May 2 for DD right? no i called and they told me its being mailed ON May 16.

Then i get a letter in the mail lastnight stating ill get it BY May 16.

IRS has no clue what they are doing.

and no one at work has gotten it either.

55 million DD's were supossed to be done on May 2

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

i remember reading a few weeks ago that they were using new software....

i bet you that's the problem.

[reeses16 8]

direct deposit into an account takes 2 weeks for delivery..... funny.

Yeah, well based on the IRS website timeline, June 6th is the day I should get the rebate if I did NOT request direct deposit. Which I did. I think its just a generic response to cover their behinds.... lol Maybe I'll get before the 4th of July.

[Mononoke28 135]

We haven't received it either but my last two digits of my social are in the 90s. Hopefully we'll get it this Friday.

Diana

[reeses16 8]

From: http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/93333

IRS bungles stimulus rebate payments

Thu May 15, 2008 2:42PM EDT

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Buzz up!on Yahoo!

If you have your hopes set on a big "economic stimulus" payment arriving in your bank account any day now, you might have to wait a bit longer. The IRS has announced that a subset of taxpayers are affected by a glitch that is delaying rebates sent to them.

The issue affects people who used a service or software program to do their 2007 taxes and opted to have the fee for those services deducted from the stimulus payment and sent via direct deposit. A bug (which the IRS has not elaborated upon) means those payments will now have to be made via a check sent via postal mail.

In addition to this bug, the IRS has confessed that 1,500 checks or direct payments were sent to the wrong taxpayers. While some reports blame this problem on a computer glitch, the IRS says that it can't necessarily pin the issue on a computer problem. Check any payments received carefully to make sure they're actually yours.

If you have received a check or inaccurate (or duplicate) direct deposit, you are required by law to mail the check back to the IRS and/or report the issue to your bank. If you spent the money, you'll have to pay it back as well.

This isn't the first time the IRS has screwed up rebate payments. In 2001 it sent half a million taxpayers notices of impending rebates (in a similar stimulus/tax relief scheme to what we have this year) that they would never be receiving.

Still haven't gotten your payment? Best not to try calling the IRS, which is now dealing with a reported 2 million incoming phone calls a day. Instead, check the IRS.gov website and consult the payment schedule on this page. And be patient.

UPDATE: The IRS writes to say 1,500 taxpayers are affected, not 15,000.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

We were supposed to receive ours on May 9th according to their schedule. On May 13th we received a letter saying we were going to receive the payment on May 9th. Haven't received it yet, although since we did file an amended return to include a receipt that wasn't in when we originally filed, we expected that would interfere with the original date and they would use the later, paper filing date to determine when we actually get the incentive payment. We'll see.

[reeses16 8]

hmm... we didn't get a letter yet. But then again, the mail to from Seattle can be a little slow.