Article

2020-05-02 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Stimulus Checks Sent to Deceased People - What to do?

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-02 06:15|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 My Dad passed 8 March and got his stimulus check direct deposited before we closed out his checking account.

Posted by Penguin_of_the_Desert 2020-05-02 07:27|| 2020-05-02 07:27|| Front Page Top

#2 This is why I say the government is just incapable of ever doing anything whatsoever.

Property of the estate of the deceased. If you do not wish to treat it as such, send it back to the Treasury of the United States and keep your certified mail receipt.

Please do your homework.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-02 07:51|| 2020-05-02 07:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Condolences, Penguin

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-02 08:03|| 2020-05-02 08:03|| Front Page Top

#4 @ #2 - Indeed, what is so hard about sending it back? Isn't there a blurb on IRS refund checks (envelopes) to return if deceased?

There was an article recently (I think posted here as well, IIRC) about the gov't not really giving a hoot about this stimulus check process.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-02 08:22|| 2020-05-02 08:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah, but they still vote.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-02 08:23|| 2020-05-02 08:23|| Front Page Top

#6 The recently dead, demographics unavailable. Gummit sez 'IRS too busy to pursue fraud.' Number of checks returned to the US Treasury, very likely unavailable as well.

What are your questions.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-02 08:28|| 2020-05-02 08:28|| Front Page Top

#7 That's why they need COBOL programmers.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-02 10:45|| 2020-05-02 10:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Stimulus Checks Sent to Deceased People - What to do?

hm. That depends on how they vote in November.

Posted by Mercutio 2020-05-02 11:05|| 2020-05-02 11:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Mom died last fall. I was getting ready to close her account because the final tax return and overpayment received and underpayment cashed was completed, then that came in.

I’ve already drafted the letter but spouse said wait. Let them take it out.

It was $200.

Posted by Klem Kadiddlehopper 2020-05-02 13:23|| 2020-05-02 13:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Where I live, they leave the onus of proving you're alive on you. Every year you've got to show up at the pension office, or an inspector will come round to take your retinal and whatever. If you don't re-register for two years, straight - you're dead for the pension office. No more pensions. Also, direct electronic disbursement to verified accounts has made false claimants marginal.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-05-02 13:46|| 2020-05-02 13:46|| Front Page Top

#11 Here in America we need to send along a certified (or notarized — I don’t recall exactly) copy of the death certificate, provided by the funeral company as a normal service when they bury or whatever the dear departed. My mother was given a stack of them when my father died a decade ago, with a list of all the people/businesses/government bureaus who would demand one. Without one it would be assumed Daddy was still alive, we were told.

I’ve seen indignant news stories about the difficulties caused when someone is accidentally declared dead by this or that government bureau, because of course there is no standard form when one isn’t.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-02 20:17|| 2020-05-02 20:17|| Front Page Top

#12 My sympathies, Penguin and Klem. Losing a parent is difficult, and this kind of nonsense makes it harder.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-02 20:21|| 2020-05-02 20:21|| Front Page Top

#13 A thought: perhaps Raj, tax accountant extraordinaire — or another of Rantburg’s many experts on anything one might want to know —will have an idea of how to handle this, or whom to ask for direction.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-02 20:24|| 2020-05-02 20:24|| Front Page Top

23:45 Lex
23:43 Thaith Elmeresing6163
23:37 Chris
23:32 ruprecht
23:31 Chris
23:30 trailing wife
23:26 Bobby
23:22 Bobby
23:04 daniel
22:59 daniel
22:57 Lex
22:54 daniel
22:16 Skidmark
21:47 trailing wife
21:44 Clem
21:18 trailing wife
20:47 jpal
20:24 trailing wife
20:21 trailing wife
20:17 trailing wife
20:08 Crusader
20:06 trailing wife
20:01 KBK
19:53 Mercutio