“It was a wave of emotions. I went from thinking $600 wasn’t enough to thinking ‘oh my God this is all that I have’ once I thought I wasn’t getting it,” says Trent, 26, who was furloughed in the spring and then laid off in July from his job as a transporter at a hospital. But he was elated when he received his check Thursday via direct deposit. “I needed the money right now," Trent added. "It was a blessing that I received it." What happened? Over the past week, the IRS started sending out the second round of stimulus payments that are worth up to $600 for individuals and each of their child dependents. Millions of payments were set to be directly deposited in accounts the IRS had on file by Jan. 4.