2008 Economic Stimulus Check

Go to

-------------- Phil Marti, VITA Volunteer Clarksburg, MD

Go to the IRS website at

(or you can go to

Enter the requested information and it will tell you the amount of any stimulus payment.

Or just phone IRS's Rebate Recovery Hotline: 1-866-234-2942 RB

Stimulus checks were sent out and were not direct deposited even if your refund was direct deposited.

Not true. If your 2007 tax return had direct deposit information on it, the stimulus check was direct deposited into that same account. If it did not have direct deposit information, they sent a paper check.

Well, that was the way it was SUPPOSED to work of course. But, As Rabbie Burns said, something like.. "the best laid plans of mice and men, aft gang awry." (Burns being Scottish, for some reason, here at happy hour, I was reminded of him.)

So then, IF a taxpayer had closed out the bank account to which the refund had been deposited, IRS reverted to sending a paper stimulating check.

ChEAR$, Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA

I didn't know he was Jewish?

Moreover if you used Form 8888 to allocate refunds to more than one account, the IRS ignored all direct deposit info.

This especially impacted clients with RALs, since RALs typically allocate some of the refund to the bank, some to the preparer, some to any IRA or annuity account the clieent might have been sold, and if anything is left over, to the taxpayer's credit card or checking/savings account.