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Stimulus checks the federal government promised to countless Americans throughout the economic slump triggered by the coronavirus pandemic started showing up Wednesday– consisting of some for people who are no longer living, several reports said.
Now, those loved ones are wondering what to do, the report said.
” Will they desire the $1,200 back?” a widow whose husband died in 2015 asked on Twitter after she received the full $2,400 payment for married couples.
Federal government stimulus checks to help during the economic downturn brought on by the coronavirus pandemic were direct transferred in savings account of some US citizens on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 – consisting of some dead people’s accounts, reports stated. (iStock).
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Spending Social Security cash provided to someone else is unlawful in the U.S.– but is “hardly ever prosecuted for small quantities,” the report said.
” At least one individual has actually been prosecuted for cashing a stimulus check not released to them, in one of the few allegations of stimulus fraud to date,” the Journal reported in 2010.
Approximately $12 million in incorrect payments from 2009 was never ever returned, the Journal reported.
