Some of your stimulus checks might be delayed for a stupid reason

[Andy Meek]

• The IRS and Treasury Department only have a little more than a week left to finish sending out a new stimulus check to millions of Americans, but problems and delays are already being reported.
• At least 13 million stimulus checks have been sent out to bank accounts that are either inactive or that the customer no longer has access to.
• This will lead to a delay in receiving the stimulus payment, because the money has to first be returned to the US Treasury.

Sometimes, it's easy to get the distinct feeling that folks in the government are bad at this whole governing thing, like when you learn that after months of dithering over whether to approve a new stimulus check for millions of Americans, they're now screwing up the disbursement of peoples' much-needed COVID relief payments.

After taking too long to approve a new round of money, and then only approving the pitifully low amount of $600 per check, now come reports that the government is causing more needless delays in people receiving their money ... by sending out millions of checks to the wrong bank accounts. According to a statement from tax preparation company Jackson Hewitt, the IRS has sent stimulus payments to more than 13 million bank accounts that they shouldn't have. Some of the bank accounts, for example, might be closed, or the customer might not have access to the account any longer.

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