CHARLOTTE — Last week, the Internal Revenue Service announced that it had sent COVID-19 relief checks to the bank accounts of 90 million Americans. But some people didn’t receive any money.
In fact, many who are on Supplemental Security Income (SSI) have contacted Action 9′s Jason Stoogenke about their third stimulus check. The program is for people with disabilities who make below a certain amount.
Kim Muncy told Stoogenke she was an office manager before she had a bad accident in 2005. Now she’s on SSI.
“It’s very hard to describe when you go from having a career to not being able to work and feel like you can’t set the proper example for your children,” she said. “It’s just very disheartening really.”
Muncy said she could use the latest stimulus check “dramatically.”
“I need glasses terribly, and I can’t afford to get them until I get my stimulus,” she said.
The IRS told Stoogenke that “payments are happening in batches” and that if someone received the first two checks and their income hasn’t gone up, that person should “expect a payment in the coming batches,” although no specific date was mentioned.
The IRS stated that the same applies to people who receive other federal benefits such as Social Security, Railroad Retirement, Survivor and Disability (SSDI) and Veterans Affairs.
Stoogenke says that anyone who receives such benefits should get the full payment of $1,400. People who receive one of those federal benefits do not have to do anything to get a stimulus check and the payment will be sent the same way their monthly benefits are sent.
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