The IRS has delivered more than $207 billion in coronavirus relief payments to individual taxpayers. But some of those payments, it turns out, have gone to dead people.
"And, you know, that bothers me. Quite a bit. I wish I knew what to do with it, but, you know, I don't," he added.
"There's mass confusion," said Janet Holtzblatt, a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center."There's been no official guidance as to how, in this instance, people should return the money that was received for their loved ones." Karen McClure, of Fort Collins, Colo., says her mother passed away in January of 2018. But in April of this year her late mother's bank account received a payment of $1,200."The government is being very reactive instead of proactive to this situation — which I find frustrating," she says.
"I'm coping with [the] Frank stuff pretty well at this point. I'm not over it. I probably will never be over it," she says."But that part didn't bother me. I'm probably angrier at the government for sending out a payment to somebody who's deceased.""I went online to the address on the letter and looked for a long time trying to find some way that I could first send the payment back. And I couldn't find that," she says.
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