<div>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Gaston, Pamela</strong><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Date: Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 6:23 PM<br>Subject: Economic Impact Payments<br>To: <br>CC: CBVI Public-Email <<a href="mailto:CBVI.Public-Email@dhs.nj.gov">CBVI.Public-Email@dhs.nj.gov</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<p style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">WASHINGTON — As work continues on issuing millions of Economic Impact Payments to Americans, the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department announced today that they anticipate payments will begin
to be issued this weekend to Social Security recipients and other federal beneficiaries who do not normally file a tax return, with the projection that the majority of these payments would be sent electronically and received on April 7.</p>
<p style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">After receiving data from the Social Security Administration on Thursday, March 25, the IRS began the multi-step process to review, validate, and test tens of millions of records to ensure eligibility
and proper calculation of Economic Impact Payments. If no additional issues arise, the IRS currently expects to complete that work and to begin processing these payment files at the end of this week. Because the majority of these payments will be disbursed
electronically – through direct deposits and payments to existing Direct Express cards – they would be received on the official payment date of April 7.</p>
<p style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">Many federal beneficiaries who filed 2019 or 2020 returns or used the Non-Filers tool last year were issued Economic Impact Payments, if eligible, during the last three weeks. The update today applies
to Social Security retirement, survivor or disability (SSDI), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) beneficiaries who did not file a 2019 or 2020 tax return or did not use the Non-Filers tool.</p>
<p style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">"IRS employees are working tirelessly to once again deliver Economic Impact Payments to the nation's taxpayers as quickly as possible," said IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig. "Our teams immediately began
processing data we received last week for federal benefit recipients. We know how important these payments are, and we are doing everything we can to make these payments as fast as possible to these important individuals." The Get My Payment tool is updated
for eligible individuals once their payment is processed. The IRS notes that the Get My Payment tool on IRS.gov will not be updated until the weekend of April 3-4 with information for federal beneficiaries expecting payments next week.</p>
<p style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">The IRS continues to review data received for Veterans Affairs (VA) benefit recipients and expects to determine a payment date and provide more details soon. Currently, the IRS estimates that Economic
Impact Payments for VA beneficiaries who do not regularly file tax returns could be disbursed by mid-April. VA beneficiary payment information will be available in the Get My Payment tool at a future date.</p>
<p style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">Federal benefit payments automatic; no action for most</p>
<p style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">Most Social Security retirement and disability beneficiaries, railroad retirees and recipients of veterans benefits who are eligible for an Economic Impact Payment do not need to take any action to receive
a payment. These payments will be automatic. Like the previous Economic Impact Payments, Social Security and other federal beneficiaries will generally receive this third payment the same way that they receive their regular benefits.</p>
<p style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">Some federal benefit recipients may need to file a 2020 tax return, even if they don't usually file, to provide information the IRS needs to send payments for any qualified dependent. Eligible individuals
in this group should file a 2020 tax return to be considered for an additional payment for their qualified dependent as quickly as possible.</p>
<p style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">Some federal benefit recipients already have received an Economic Impact Payment</p>
<p style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">The IRS emphasizes that federal benefit recipients in these groups who file tax returns already started to receive Economic Impact Payments earlier this month, along with other taxpayers.</p>
<p style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">Because some federal benefit recipients do not file tax returns, the IRS did not have in its tax systems the current information needed to generate the Economic Impact Payments. Last year, the IRS took
the unprecedented step to receive and review data from other federal agencies and use that data to deliver payments automatically to these recipients. This action – which had never occurred in previous stimulus efforts – minimized risk and burdens for the
American public during the pandemic. Due to regular changes in the federal benefits population, the IRS needed to receive updated information this month from other government agencies. With these critical updates, eligible federal benefit recipients who don't
normally file an income tax return will get a payment automatically in the next few weeks.</p>
<p style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">Making these automatic payments to federal beneficiaries involves a complex, multi-step process to handle recipient data from the other agencies. For the first round of Economic Impact Payments last
year, recipients in these groups received payments within four to six weeks after the CARES Act was signed into law. For the American Rescue Plan signed March 11, the IRS projects that it is on track to deliver Economic Impact Payments to federal beneficiaries
at the same or faster speed.</p>
<p style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">More details on this third round of Economic Impact Payments and federal benefit recipients will be available soon on <a href="http://irs.gov" target="_blank">irs.gov</a></p>
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