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just got the stimulus money!!!!!!!

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jeyf

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yes indeed just now!
this is totally fabulous just 4me :cool:

if you peeps feel without you should. You can get your stimulus ETA from an irs web site:

Get My Payment | Internal Revenue Service

Use Get My Payment to get information about your payment status and payment type.
www.irs.gov www.irs.gov
this page asked for SS#, DOB, street Adr
 
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I've been trying to use that site today to provide my bank details so I'll get direct deposit instead of waiting months for a paper check.

It seems to be getting heavy traffic with people trying to do the same thing and so far I haven't been able to get it to complete the process. A couple of friends report the same thing
 
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Got mine this morning. Sadly one of the kids turned 18 a couple of months ago so no money for him...
 
Macky-Mac said:
I've been trying to use that site today to provide my bank details so I'll get direct deposit instead of waiting months for a paper check.
It seems to be getting heavy traffic ...
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set the alarm for 3am and try it than?
 
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mine hit
 
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yaxomoxay said:
For those that receive "status unavailable", did you file for 2019 ?
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not yet but according to all that IRS has said, it isn't necessary since they'll use the information needed from 2018 tax returns for those who haven't filed for 2019.

the "status unavailable" thing seems to be unfortunately wide spread though. The IRS has responded saying their site isn't crashing as has been reported, but their official response hasn't offered a clear answer as to why so many people are experiencing the problem..... although one IRS spokesperson said that the "status unavailable" page was actually the default page that users will be sent to when the site gets overloaded.

Perhaps the explanation may be as simple as they launched before uploading all the data they'd need....so check back tomorrow......and the next day......and keep it up until it's too late to do anything ;)
 
I am a financial planner and I usually overpay my taxes on purpose at the Fed/State level as my income could go up significantly year to year. Therefore, if I am eligible for a "refund" I let is roll over to the next tax season.

I am eligible for a stimulus payment. When I went to the Get My Payment tool this morning, I put in all my 2019 information. However, it kept saying my information did not match. After trying a few times it locked me out for 24 hours.

  1. Technically I do not owe taxes nor was a refunded. I was not exactly sure what to put in the box other than the amount I rolled over to the next tax year.
  2. My 2019 taxes are filed as of early March. However, according to my CPA they are still "processing" it. He seems to think I should put in my 2018 information instead(similar tax overpayment). Funny enough, it will give me a bigger payment.
Anyone have any experience or input on these two items? I am more concerned about how to fill out the form since I overpaid my taxes.

Thanks!
 
Plutonius said:
Yes and they deposited my 2019 refund but still "status unavailable".

I also filed and got a refund in 2018.
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Starting to sound like one of those catchall error stubs in a program for situations when an ancillary system can't keep up the pace or doesn't have the expected data and they don't want to let a program blow up or post something really offputting like a developer's interim comment that was in the test code like "put this up when don't know wtf happened back there".
 
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DianaMR said:
Me too. Anybody had this and got it resolved?
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The Washington Post has a piece up that noted some of the reasons for delay. Unfortunately the piece is paywalled so I'll excerpt a relevant portion below.

The piece is at https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/16/coronavirus-cares-stimulus-check/

Excerpt related to the "status unavailable" message:
  • You aren’t eligible for a payment.
  • Your payment is based on your status as a Social Security, disability or Railroad Retirement beneficiary. In this case, the IRS will use your SSA or RRB Form 1099 payment information. Your payment information isn’t available on the Get My Payment tool.
  • You have not filed a 2018 or 2019 federal tax return.
  • You filed your 2019 return, but it hasn’t been fully processed.
  • You used the non-filers tool, but the information you entered is still being processed.
  • There’s a problem verifying your identity when answering the security questions.

There are also a few glitches in the program related to pretty special circumstances.
One is apparently if you neither owed nor were refunded anything on tax returns filed for 2018 and 2019, the program is unhappy. Don't ask how that tripped up their spaghetti code but I guess your perfection was unexpected by the US government? Anyway they're working on it.
 
if you did not receive a check?
there are quite a few google news articles on this

did anyone bother to ask and VERIFY the irs is capable of doing this?? NO
 
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LizKat said:
The Washington Post has a piece up that noted some of the reasons for delay. Unfortunately the piece is paywalled so I'll excerpt a relevant portion below.

The piece is at https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/16/coronavirus-cares-stimulus-check/

Excerpt related to the "status unavailable" message:
  • You aren’t eligible for a payment.
  • Your payment is based on your status as a Social Security, disability or Railroad Retirement beneficiary. In this case, the IRS will use your SSA or RRB Form 1099 payment information. Your payment information isn’t available on the Get My Payment tool.
  • You have not filed a 2018 or 2019 federal tax return.
  • You filed your 2019 return, but it hasn’t been fully processed.
  • You used the non-filers tool, but the information you entered is still being processed.
  • There’s a problem verifying your identity when answering the security questions.

There are also a few glitches in the program related to pretty special circumstances.
One is apparently if you neither owed nor were refunded anything on tax returns filed for 2018 and 2019, the program is unhappy. Don't ask how that tripped up their spaghetti code but I guess your perfection was unexpected by the US government? Anyway they're working on it.
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Unfortunately, none of those apply to me so I guess I’ll just wait and hope it is just a glitch that they will get resolved soon. Thanks!
 
LizKat said:
The Washington Post has a piece up that noted some of the reasons for delay. Unfortunately the piece is paywalled so I'll excerpt a relevant portion below.

The piece is at https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/16/coronavirus-cares-stimulus-check/

Excerpt related to the "status unavailable" message:
  • You aren’t eligible for a payment.
  • Your payment is based on your status as a Social Security, disability or Railroad Retirement beneficiary. In this case, the IRS will use your SSA or RRB Form 1099 payment information. Your payment information isn’t available on the Get My Payment tool.
  • You have not filed a 2018 or 2019 federal tax return.
  • You filed your 2019 return, but it hasn’t been fully processed.
  • You used the non-filers tool, but the information you entered is still being processed.
  • There’s a problem verifying your identity when answering the security questions.

There are also a few glitches in the program related to pretty special circumstances.
One is apparently if you neither owed nor were refunded anything on tax returns filed for 2018 and 2019, the program is unhappy. Don't ask how that tripped up their spaghetti code but I guess your perfection was unexpected by the US government? Anyway they're working on it.
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The only one on that list that might apply to me is "you aren't eligible for a payment".

I have no idea who is eligible and who is not other than an income limit (my income is less than half the limit).

As far as the others in the list, I'm not a SS, disability, or railroad retirement beneficiary.

I filed both a 2018 and 2019 return and got a refund for both years.

I did not use the non-filer tool.
 
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