Economic Impact Payment

April 10, 2020

New IRS Site Could Make it Easy for Thieves to Intercept Some Stimulus Payments

This post was originally published on this siteThe U.S. federal government is now in the process of sending Economic Impact Payments by direct deposit to millions of Americans. Most who are eligible for payments can expect to have funds direct-deposited into the same bank accounts listed on previous years’ tax filings sometime next week. Today, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) stood up a site to collect bank account information from the many Americans who don’t usually file a tax return. The question is, will those non-filers have a chance to claim their payments before fraudsters do? The IRS says the […]