One week from tomorrow, it’s payday in America. In more ways than one. That’s right — it’s time for a new stimulus check update, this one perhaps the most important of any similar update we’ve shared over the past 17 months or so. Starting next Wednesday, the IRS will send the first installment in a …
Since President Biden signed the $1.9 trillion “American Rescue Plan” stimulus legislation in March, the federal government has been busy. It’s distributed more than 163 million $1,400 stimulus checks — a third stimulus check wave, with payments totaling around $390 billion. This third batch of direct payments, remember, was the new administration’s immediate, urgent response …
With each passing day, as more Americans are vaccinated against COVID-19, we get incrementally closer to ending the coronavirus pandemic. It will take more than jabs in arms to undo the damage from the past 17 months, however. The economic devastation, for example, has proved singularly extensive. This is why states, as well as the …
Fourth stimulus check rumors are still all over the place, though we’ve been pretty clear that all signs point to one not happening this year. Read our earlier post, here, for a deeper dive into why we think this is the case. When it comes to all things stimmy, however, it’s never over until the …
Exactly two weeks from today, the first of six new monthly stimulus checks will start arriving in Americans’ mailboxes. Or, of course, in their bank accounts, provided they’re registered with the IRS. When coupled with a tax credit next year, this benefit will total as much as $3,600 for each eligible child. These expanded federal …
One of the most consequential pieces of legislation passed by Congress in recent memory was the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. This was the economic rescue package that President Biden signed into law back in March. And it funded a new wave of stimulus checks, for one thing, among a host of other benefits — …
The NSA and the firebrand host of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight are feuding with each other, because that’s the world we live in now. Welcome to one of the weirdest news stories in the country at the moment. And security professionals, especially, have been taking to Twitter, gobsmacked at how quickly this story spun …
The coronavirus pandemic is not over yet, not by a long shot. Cases of the much more transmissible Delta variant are surging across the US. Battered industries across multiple sectors are still dealing with the pandemic’s economic shock. And a new stimulus check is still regarded in some corners as a potent tool for helping …
As of June 9th, more than 169 million payments have been distributed in the third round of stimulus payments from the federal government, representing a total value of around $395 billion. The status of the possible fourth round is still up in the air, but in just a few weeks, the initial advance Child Tax …
The IRS is playing a massive game of catch-up at the moment, now that we’re more than a month beyond this year’s extended federal filing deadline of May 17 — the date that was chosen to give people more time to finalize their taxes as a result of ongoing complications related to the coronavirus pandemic. …
