Stuck in prison? Here’s how to claim your coronavirus stimulus check
Updated Jan 31, 2021;
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Syracuse, N.Y. Being incarcerated, it turns out, doesn’t disqualify you from receiving a coronavirus stimulus check. You just have to know how to claim it.
Nothing in the two stimulus packages Congress approved last year bars prisoners from receiving stimulus payments, which for most people amounted to $1,200 for the first payment and $600 for the second one.
That did not stop the IRS in June from trying to deny the first stimulus payments to people behind bars. But a federal judge in October ruled the agency had no authority to deny prisoners the payments.
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Congress must work to ensure CUs can support members
Credit unions improve members’ financial well-being and advance the communities they serve, CUNA wrote to Congressional leadership Wednesday, outlining several priorities for the new Congress. CUNA wrote a similar letter to the Biden administration prior to last week’s inauguration.
“As we look at the issuing facing our country and the 117th Congress, we will work to advance policy that furthers credit unions’ mission and enables them to continue the work of improving their members’ financial well-being and advancing the communities they serve,” the letter reads. “And, we will strongly resist proposals that would impair the same.”