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Non-filers: Expect a letter about your stimulus check
If you don’t usually file a tax return, or didn’t file a return for 2018 or 2019, you might not know you could qualify for an economic impact payment. You might be one of the nine million people getting a letter from the IRS letting you know how to register on their website to claim your payment. The new deadline for filing is November 21, 2020.
If you get this letter from the IRS, it’s legit. Go only to the IRS’s real website at IRS.gov/EIP, or call them directly at 800-919-9835 to register to claim your payment. You only have until November 21. But if someone claiming to be from the IRS calls, emails, or texts about helping you get your stimulus payment, that person is running a government imposter scam on you. Hang up, and don’t respond to or click on any links in texts or emails.
Why? Because the IRS will not text, email, or call you about your economic impact payment. And they’ll never ask you to pay a fee to get your money.
Visit the IRS’s website to find out more about stimulus payments. And be sure to tell the FTC if someone pretending to be from the government contacts you.
Note: This blog, originally posted on September 23, 2020, has been updated with the IRS’s extended filing deadline of November 21, 2020.
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The Social Security Administration website says the IRS already sent payments to most people who get Social Security retirement, survivors and disablity payments. That's for people who live inside the US and started getting Social Security benefits before January of this year (2020).
The Social Security Administration website has lots of questions and answers about stimulus payments, and different questions and answers about the payment cards it sent to some people. You might have gotten a payment card instead of a deposit. Read about the payment cards on this Social Security Administration page.
Stimulus payments come from the IRS, and you can call their question line at 1-800-919-9835. The Social Security Administration can't answer questions about your specific situation.
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The letters are going to people who did not get any economic impact payment this year. If you got one economic impact payment, you should not get a letter.
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The IRS has information about one Economic Impact Payment at irs.gov/coronavirus, and filing deadlines for that payment. This blog is about that payment.
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