50,000 new stimulus checks are going out as soon as next week – are you getting one?

[Andy Meek]

• The IRS says that starting as soon as next week, some 50,000 people are going to be receiving a new stimulus check.
• These new stimulus payments are meant to correct a mistake, rather than representing new stimulus funding approved by Congress.
• The new stimulus checks include funding that the IRS says the recipients should have already received.

A 25-minute phone call between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, the first time in weeks that the pair has spoken, has unfortunately produced more of the same when it comes to the status of coronavirus stimulus talks in Washington DC: Stalemate and recriminations, as both major parties remain as far apart as ever on the particulars of any new legislation.

This is especially bad news for the millions of Americans who'd been hoping for a new stimulus check to help them weather the financial storm associated with the coronavirus pandemic -- something that 1 million Americans could especially use now that they've filed claims for unemployment benefits for the first time, the Labor Department said on Thursday. That increase means that, overall, a little more than 58 million Americans have sought jobless aid for the first time over the last 23 weeks as the pandemic has unfolded in the US.

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