How to track the coronavirus stimulus check you still haven’t received

[Andy Meek]

• Millions of Americans are still checking each day for a coronavirus stimulus check update, hoping to receive their direct payment from the federal government soon.
• The IRS has been sending out payments of up to $1,200 for individuals and $2,400 for married couples, with an extra $500 per eligible child, during the pandemic.
• The US Postal Service has a feature that many people might not be aware of that lets taxpayers get a better sense of when their money will be delivered via the mail.

Many of the people likely to benefit the most from the coronavirus stimulus checks the federal government started sending out back in March are, unfortunately, still waiting to get their money that was supposed to help blunt some of the economic pain of the ongoing pandemic. Now that we've passed the IRS deadline for submitting your bank details for direct deposits, everyone who didn't do so -- which could be anyone from elderly taxpayers on fixed incomes to hourly workers whose time in front of a computer may be limited -- is waiting on their check to arrive in paper form via the postal service, and is likely checking their stimulus check status daily in frustration. All the more so, when you consider the fact that lawmakers probably aren't going to agree on a new round of stimulus checks anytime soon. This is it, in other words, for the foreseeable future.

But while it won't help you get your check any faster, there is a neat solution for tracking it with a bit more specificity that most people probably aren't using and may not even be aware of.

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