Due to IRS error, financial aid to millions of Americans was sent to the wrong place

According to Intuit TurboTax, a company that helps distribute payments, millions of COVID-19 quarantine aid payments have been diverted to the wrong customer accounts due to an IRS error. Writes about it Reuters.

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Two banking sources have confirmed a mistake that will delay the distribution of needed financial aid.

“Those who did not receive direct deposit should monitor their mail for a paper check or card,” the IRS notice said.

Intuit TurboTax tweeted Wednesday: "Unfortunately, due to an IRS error, millions of payments were sent to the wrong accounts and some people never got paid."

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One source said the IRS has used old information for millions of accounts that are considered closed or inactive. Banks are working with the IRS to return and redirect declined payments to the correct accounts, but it's unclear how long the process will take.

Department of Finance began processing the second round of payments on December 29 as part of a new Congressional COVID-19 relief package... Millions of payments were to be directly transferred by January 4 to taxpayer accounts.

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“The IRS is checking where the payments were sent. It turned out that in some cases the money was transferred to a different account than the one in the first round of payments,” H&R Block, another company that also helps distribute payments, wrote on Twitter.

Invalid payments are likely to be reissued in paper checks, although the IRS may ask taxpayers to file a 2020 tax return to receive payment.

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