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> any money (including the first stimulus) for literally months I got mine almost immediately. What is the difference between me and your brother, I don't unde

> any money (including the first stimulus) for literally months I got mine almost immediately. What is the difference between me and your brother, I don't understand.

ethanwillis 6y ago
This is the same question I have. Other family members and friends have all received theirs. He's much younger than me, working entry level jobs, filed all of his taxes, etc. I just looked up some news about it, apparently about 30-35 million(estimated) checks have not been sent out.
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salmon30salmon 6y ago
Do you live in the same state? That is probably the difference :)
- dominotw 6y ago
  what do stimulus checks have to do with the state?
  - salmon30salmon 6y ago
    My mistake, I thought you were referring to the 600/week extra unemployment benefit.
guenthert 6y ago
A buddy of mine got his too within days, I wait since early May. The EDD (California) did process millions of applications (or so they claim), but more than a million are still outstanding. The problem seems to me to be in their mission objective: they view every applicant first and foremost as a potential "wellfare queen" and attempt to prove that as a fact (17 years ago, in the aftermath of the Internet bubble burst, I lost my job as well, applied for unemployment insurance benefit and the phone interview I went though was as bizarre as unpleasant -- I didn't get to the phone interview this time 'round). I wished they would rather operate like the IRS: after preliminary, automated checks using tax records (was the person employed by employer as claimed, is that person now employed?) hand out the money and perform selective, random in-depth audits asynchronously.
- dominotw 6y ago
  > The problem seems to me to be in their mission objective: they view every applicant first and foremost as a potential "wellfare queen" this doesn't apply to 'stimulus check' in question. They sent it to everyone immediately based on tax returns.
- coryrc 6y ago
  Washington state lost $650 million in a month or two trying that.
charwalker 6y ago
My GF has yet to get hers or her tax return. The stimulus check went to an address from 2 years ago and she would be on hold for hours just trying to get her address updated and stopped calling. There's maybe $3k just sitting out there but the Treasury can't get it to her. This is why I vote blue, we need to adequately fund our government systems or face issues like this.
- paulmd 6y ago
  a lot of people also ended up having to get checks even though they filed last year and everything. If you used any of the "pay for your e-filing with your tax refund", "get your tax refund as an amazon gift card with a 5% bonus!" etc type arrangements, your tax filing company actually was the bank account of record and the IRS has to send you a check since they don't have real banking info for you.
- dominotw 6y ago
  > This is why I vote blue, we need to adequately fund our government systems or face issues like this. exactly. CA state unemployment system doesn't have any of these issues because they always vote blue and fund their govt systems.
fraXis 6y ago
My daughter has been waiting since March 19th for her EDD benefits. When EDD sent her the initial paperwork (after she signed up online), it had a different social security number listed for her (she typed in her correct social security number online). The letter stated that she needed to provide proof of her social security number. She has tried to do that for four months now. She has called them, written them snail mail letters along with proof that they have the wrong social security number, and numerous faxes. They keep telling her that the ID fraud department will eventually reach out to her. It has not happened yet after all this time. We have even reached out to the California Governor's office for help. Nothing has worked. If she did not currently live with me and have me financially support her through all of this, she would be broke and possibly homeless.

> any money (including the first stimulus) for literally months I got mine almost immediately. What is the difference between me and your brother, I don't understand.

ethanwillis 6y ago

This is the same question I have. Other family members and friends have all received theirs. He's much younger than me, working entry level jobs, filed all of his taxes, etc. I just looked up some news about it, apparently about 30-35 million(estimated) checks have not been sent out.

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salmon30salmon 6y ago

Do you live in the same state? That is probably the difference :)

dominotw 6y ago
what do stimulus checks have to do with the state?
- salmon30salmon 6y ago
  My mistake, I thought you were referring to the 600/week extra unemployment benefit.

guenthert 6y ago

A buddy of mine got his too within days, I wait since early May. The EDD (California) did process millions of applications (or so they claim), but more than a million are still outstanding. The problem seems to me to be in their mission objective: they view every applicant first and foremost as a potential "wellfare queen" and attempt to prove that as a fact (17 years ago, in the aftermath of the Internet bubble burst, I lost my job as well, applied for unemployment insurance benefit and the phone interview I went though was as bizarre as unpleasant -- I didn't get to the phone interview this time 'round). I wished they would rather operate like the IRS: after preliminary, automated checks using tax records (was the person employed by employer as claimed, is that person now employed?) hand out the money and perform selective, random in-depth audits asynchronously.

dominotw 6y ago
> The problem seems to me to be in their mission objective: they view every applicant first and foremost as a potential "wellfare queen" this doesn't apply to 'stimulus check' in question. They sent it to everyone immediately based on tax returns.
coryrc 6y ago
Washington state lost $650 million in a month or two trying that.

charwalker 6y ago

My GF has yet to get hers or her tax return. The stimulus check went to an address from 2 years ago and she would be on hold for hours just trying to get her address updated and stopped calling. There's maybe $3k just sitting out there but the Treasury can't get it to her. This is why I vote blue, we need to adequately fund our government systems or face issues like this.

paulmd 6y ago
a lot of people also ended up having to get checks even though they filed last year and everything. If you used any of the "pay for your e-filing with your tax refund", "get your tax refund as an amazon gift card with a 5% bonus!" etc type arrangements, your tax filing company actually was the bank account of record and the IRS has to send you a check since they don't have real banking info for you.
dominotw 6y ago
> This is why I vote blue, we need to adequately fund our government systems or face issues like this. exactly. CA state unemployment system doesn't have any of these issues because they always vote blue and fund their govt systems.

fraXis 6y ago

My daughter has been waiting since March 19th for her EDD benefits. When EDD sent her the initial paperwork (after she signed up online), it had a different social security number listed for her (she typed in her correct social security number online). The letter stated that she needed to provide proof of her social security number. She has tried to do that for four months now. She has called them, written them snail mail letters along with proof that they have the wrong social security number, and numerous faxes. They keep telling her that the ID fraud department will eventually reach out to her. It has not happened yet after all this time. We have even reached out to the California Governor's office for help. Nothing has worked. If she did not currently live with me and have me financially support her through all of this, she would be broke and possibly homeless.