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Jan 13, 2021
3:36:06pm

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Are you getting an EIP card instead of a stimulus check? What you need to know

The IRS is now sending out twice the number of stimulus payments by EIP card this time. Here's what that is, how to find out if you'll get one, and how to use it if you do.

https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/are-you-getting-an-eip-card-instead-of-a-stimulus-check-what-you-need-to-know/

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Why would I have received my Economic Impact Payment in the form of a Visa card instead of deposited into my account?

Sea Chicken Freeloader

1/13/21 3:29pm

My SIL just told us she got hers that way today

Slim

1/13/21 3:30pm

We must be related

Sea Chicken

1/13/21 3:30pm

Slim

1/13/21 3:32pm

That was for families who make 25,000 or less per year.

LiveCoug

1/13/21 3:30pm

That explains it

Sea Chicken

1/13/21 3:41pm

I heard those are sent to the ones who the IRS plans to audit this year

Ojiisan

1/13/21 3:31pm

I heard you can transfer the money to a bank account from the card

Huge Manatee

1/13/21 3:31pm

I tried this a few days ago. Nothing happened and today I got a reversal and it's back on the dumb card.

BlooGeek

1/13/21 3:40pm

How about cash out via ATM or with a teller?

Huge Manatee

1/13/21 3:41pm

I just told my wife this is what we should probably do next. But what a pain. I got DD last time. Why this dumb card now

BlooGeek

1/13/21 3:44pm

In some cases it depends upon the IRS center that processes your returns. Even

Hoopster

1/13/21 3:50pm

RE: I tried this a few days ago. Nothing happened and today I got a reversal and

CHANCHO

1/13/21 3:44pm

Glad to hear that. I was afraid I put in my bank account info wrong or something. Sounds more like the company

BlooGeek

1/13/21 3:46pm

RE: I tried this a few days ago. Nothing happened and today I got a reversal and

CHANCHO

1/13/21 3:45pm

Maybe the IRS does not have your direct deposit info so they mailed you the card

Hoopster

1/13/21 3:33pm

That is probably it, but it is odd because we have used the same bank account for our tax returns for 15+ years.

Sea Chicken

1/13/21 3:35pm

Not sure why, but I heard they can only be used at Trump hotels and resorts.

Texas Hammer

1/13/21 3:33pm

Ours was deposited in an OLD closed Bank Account.. the business account we

relic

1/13/21 3:33pm

Just a preview of government healthcare when they will send your life saving

Ojiisan

1/13/21 3:42pm

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SweetBabyG

1/13/21 3:36pm

Thanks to Visa's zealous and totally worth their fees lobbyists

Gustav

1/13/21 3:36pm

My first stimulus was direct deposit and the current one is being mailed.

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