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Andy Meek
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Over the past 18 months of the health and financial crises stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, stimulus checks have become as much a local story as a national one. There's certainly a national element to the question of when and whether Americans will get a new stimulus check, which would amount to a fourth wave of such payments since March of 2020. Democrat Senators, for example, have been calling on President Biden to get behind the approval of a fourth stimulus check, while the IRS finishes up the distribution of the third wave of checks and also prepares to start issuing an all-new type of payment -- federal child tax credit checks, which start July 15.
There's also a local aspect, however, to all of this, with states and municipalities deciding here and there to add whatever they want to do for their citizens on top of any stimulus for the federal government. We've written about some examples of this already, including in California where Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a $9.6 billion relief package that funded an estimated 5.7 million stimulus checks -- $600 direct payments to lower-income Californians as well as those who were “unfairly excluded from previous federal stimulus payments.” And here's another example to add to the list.
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If you live in this city, you might get an extra $500 stimulus check on top of your $3,600 payment originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 25 Jun 2021 at 13:17:59 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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