The Trump Administration sent more than a million stimulus checks worth $1.4 billion to the deceased.
in federal stimulus money—more than one million checks—in error to the deceased, the IRS and Treasury Department announced that it is cancelling all outstanding stimulus checks made out to those who have died.“BFS has cancelled outstanding Economic Impact Payment checks issued to recipients who may not be eligible, including those who may be deceased,” the IRS said late last week in theThe error stemmed from an inconsistency in the way data on deceased people is shared among government agencies.
In this case, the IRS had access to certain death records from the Social Security Administration but the arm of the Treasury Department that issued the stimulus checks did not.clarifying that payments made to the deceased should be returned to the IRS by the recipients, but it was not clear whether the recipients, like surviving spouses, would be legally required to do so.
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