Stimulus check update: The IRS is mailing out 8 million preloaded debit cards

[Andy Meek]

• The IRS and Treasury Department are in the process of sending millions of Americans a new stimulus check -- in the form of preloaded debit cards.
• The IRS said Thursday that it's mailing out about 8 million of the debit cards preloaded with stimulus payments of up to $600.
• The stimulus payments will be sent out through January 15.

Here's an important piece of advice from the IRS for anyone who's still waiting on their new stimulus check to arrive -- don't automatically through away any mail, starting now, that looks like it might be junk.

The tax agency said that it's in the process of mailing out about 8 million debit cards preloaded with stimulus payments of up to $600. If you'll recall, the IRS did this in early 2020 as well, and compounding a less-than-stellar rollout of the first stimulus payments was the fact that these mailed-out debit cards looked like random junk mail -- so some recipients inadvertently threw them in the trash. "IRS and Treasury urge eligible people who don't receive a direct deposit to watch their mail carefully during this period," the IRS announced about the new stimulus checks, the disbursement of which is supposed to be done on January 15. "The prepaid debit card, called the Economic Impact Payment card, is sponsored by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service and is issued by Treasury's financial agent, MetaBank®, N.A."

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