Stimulus Check Wrong Account Again

The irs determines where second stimulus payments were sent and in some cases money was sent to a different account than the first stimulus payment last spring.

Stimulus check wrong account again. The irs pulled bank information from each taxpayer s most recent return and direct deposited the stimulus payment to the same account the taxpayer s latest refund went. A second round of stimulus payments triggered a second round of complaints from many angry taxpayers who aren t seeing their money quickly. Unfortunately there s little you can do if the irs has already begun processing your stimulus payment.

But this system isn t perfect. In an answer to a customer on a faq page about the latest checks a turbotax representative explained that if a person s bank information is incorrect or the account has been closed the bank will. But problems arose for people whose checks.

So while many people began receiving the second stimulus. The tax prep company said customers who checked the status of their payments using the irs get my. So while many people began receiving the second stimulus payments in their bank accounts monday others only saw red.

The irs said it has deposited more than 100 million stimulus checks into eligible americans bank accounts since the money started going out last week. Some 600 payments apparently are going into the wrong bank accounts according.