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Andy Meek
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- Congress is in the final stages of drafting and passing President Joe Biden's economic rescue package that includes funding to send most Americans a new stimulus check.
- The distribution of these new stimulus checks will most likely happen the way the two previous rounds did in 2020.
- The government will start with electronic bank deposits, followed by a wave of paper check mailouts -- the latter of which can pose a series of problems.
When Americans first learned they would be getting a new stimulus check last year in the still-early days of the coronavirus pandemic, it quickly became apparent how the distribution of this emergency cash infusion from the federal government would unfold.
Both times, in fact, that the Trump administration sent out a round of stimulus checks in 2020 -- starting in March, with generally $1,200 stimulus checks, and then a round of $600 checks in December -- things started with some people getting their money as an electronic deposit. Everybody else, meanwhile, had to wait for the paper version of their stimulus funds to arrive in the mail, as a check that you'd have to take the extra step of depositing into your bank. More than likely, many of those people had the capability to snap a picture of the stimulus check from the IRS with their smartphone and deposit it remotely into their account. But if they didn't, they had to drive to the bank and do it the old fashioned way. Now here we are in 2021, waiting for the Biden administration to get started with its version of the same thing, and it's leading some people to ask some pretty obvious questions -- starting with, why, in 2021, are we still relying on sending paper checks through the mail, like the Internet was never invented or something?
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