Return Stimulus Check To Irs For Deceased Person
If a person died but filed their taxes within the last.
Return stimulus check to irs for deceased person. You must return a canceled check too. Kplc if you received a stimulus check or direct deposit in the name of a deceased relative you have plenty of company. If a joint check was.
However after a while the tax agency determined that deceased people shouldn t receive a stimulus check payment and asked the surviving spouse to return the payment. But the internal revenue service. But like last time the irs doesn t have much legal recourse to force people to repay 600 stimulus checks if ultimately deemed to have been issued in error olson said.
If you received a payment via debit card or direct deposit for a deceased person you must return it. Write void on the endorsement. The agency could ask the.
The cares act authorized a 1 200 stimulus check based on 2018 or 2019 tax returns depending on if and when you filed your last tax return. To return paper stimulus checks the irs says to. In addition to new explanations about dead people and the incarcerated being ineligible for payments the irs has a new entry in its stimulus payment faq page q41 explaining how to return a stimulus check.
Basically if you received a paper stimulus check from the treasury department and it hasn t been deposited you should write void on the back pop it in the mail to your regional irs location and include a note stating the reason for returning the check the irs says. The irs system is smart enough to note she is deceased as i filed a 2018 final tax return but not smart enough to figure out deceased people can t stimulate the economy he said.