Today is your last day to apply for a stimulus check and rent relief

[Andy Meek]

• A stimulus check update could be coming soon, now that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin appear to be closing in on a possible new coronavirus stimulus accord.
• However, there are also some important deadlines to be aware of that are connected to the first stimulus bill that Congress passed, the $2.2 trillion CARES Act from back in March.
• Today is the deadline to apply for the extra $500/child payment that was supposed to be included with your first stimulus check if you didn't yet receive that money.

While everyone waits to see if a stimulus check update materializes soon -- now that the Democrat-led House of Representatives has unveiled a new $2.2 trillion stimulus package that includes funding for new $1,200 stimulus checks -- a major deadline has arrived today for anyone who didn't get all of their stimulus money yet.

Democrats and White House representatives have reportedly given themselves an unofficial endpoint of today to determine whether or not there's a chance to salvage hopes of a new stimulus accord moving through Congress that would also have the full support of the president. “I say we’re going to give it one more serious try to get this done, and I think we’re hopeful that we can get something done,” Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said during the Delivering Alpha conference presented by CNBC and Institutional Investor. “I think there is a reasonable compromise here.” Meantime, it's also important to know that Americans have mere hours left to take advantage of funding made available through the CARES Act that Congress passed way back in March, if that money is still needed.

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