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Coronavirus Stimulus Checks Being Sent to the Deceased

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Even when the best intentions are present, we cannot rely on government-run programs, relates to the coronavirus stimulus checks. Proof? The coronavirus stimulus checks are being sent to dead people. One man took to twitter about his grandmother who had died in 2018 but received a direct deposit of $1,200 in her bank account. One TIME Magazine Reporter wrote about her grandma who received a $2,400 stimulus check for her and her husband, even though he died in 2018. The reporter then questioned, “does she have to pay $1,200 of that money back? What does she do?”

Trump’s administration is giving stimulus checks during this time of global crisis in order to help individuals in need, and even when the best intentions are there, it’s just impossible to be executed without error. Therefore, how on earth can we expect liberals’ beloved universal health care to work? What Democrats have promised voters time and time again just isn’t feasible, and dead people receiving the same checks as the living for aide during a global pandemic is proof.

How can we trust the government to expand Social Security benefits appropriately? Or correctly tax the rich and only the rich, particularly when the rich are the ones who know how to play the tax game? Erasing student debt, not having to pay for health insurance, being given money even without a job, these are all things voters actually expect from leadership.

So there you have it; mistakes happen even when the government is trying to give you money that was not previously yours. Imagine the disaster if the government had total control.

Here’s why the system can never be fair or failproof. The stimulus checks being sent out are based on tax filings from 2018. Just The News reports that “Social Security beneficiaries who did not file returns in those years also qualify for the payments.” Using 2018 tax returns seems not only reasonable but the only option, considering 2019 tax filings was postponed to July due to coronavirus.

Citizens Against Government Waste President Tom Schatz told Just the News that the IRS “relies on data submitted to the federal government from states about deceased taxpayers and inmates and some of the data is outdated. This leads to direct payments going to ineligible individuals such as deceased or incarcerated taxpayers.”

Schatz said, “the death file, as it’s called, is always out of date and that’s always a problem either for normal Social Security payments and certainly in this case for the stimulus checks as well coming to dead people.” He added, “it’s going to happen. There’s no way to avoid it.” Just The News reached out to the IRS “to find out if there is a system in place to recoup the payments incorrectly made to dead people and inmates but the agency declined to comment.”  The Treasury Department and the Social Security Administration did not respond to requests for comments either.

And there you have it; mistakes happen even when the government is trying to give you money that was not previously yours. Imagine the disaster if the government had total control.

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