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Jacob Siegal
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President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 into law on Thursday, March 11th, and while some of the $1,400 stimulus checks approved by the bill began hitting bank accounts as early as last Friday, the vast majority of eligible Americans received their payments on Wednesday, March 17th. In fact, the IRS and Treasury Department announced that they disbursed 90 million payments via direct deposit on Wednesday, with a combined value of over $242 billion. The Treasury has also mailed around 150,000 paper checks.
Back on March 15th, Biden pledged to hit two major goals within the next ten days: 100 million vaccine doses in arms and 100 million stimulus checks delivered. Considering the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker has the US at over 113 million shots administered as of March 18th, it seems like the president is going to accomplish his goals, but now that tens of millions of Americans have received their stimulus checks, some are wondering what comes next.
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Is another check coming after your $1,400 stimulus check? Here’s what you need to know originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 18 Mar 2021 at 11:04:57 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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