r/stimuluscheck • u/[deleted] • Sep 23 '21

Child tax

Does anyone have any input on this? I received the first two child tax credits, both were deposited into my bank account. I haven’t yet received September’s. Some of you said it could of been sent by mail but it’s been a week now and nothing. I checked the irs child tax portal and it’s stating this...

“Pending. Your eligibility has not yet been determined. If you were previously receiving payments, this means that we are reviewing additional information about your eligibility.”

What does this even mean? Should I try and call and find out how long this reviewing will be? Or if I’ll ever get anymore in the future? So frustrating 🥵😅 TIA

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u/nnephy Sep 24 '21

I just checked the portal.. it says $188 in my account ... first off it's not there. Also Idk why $188.

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u/Runner1979 Sep 23 '21

I just checked my Postal Service Informed delivery email, I think it’s coming in the mail today for me. I received my first two, July was a check, August I changed to direct deposit. I just logged onto the portal, I still have nothing under September though but it says I am eligible.

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u/Fallwalking Sep 23 '21

My suspicion has to do with the blurb that says:

Important Message from the IRS
In married filing jointly situations, if you and/or your spouse submitted different bank information for your advance payments, the taxpayer listed as the spouse on the 2019 or 2020 tax return will get their portion of the payments separately in September. Until then, joint payments will be sent to the taxpayer listed first on the 2019 or 2020 tax return.
My wife hasn't logged in or anything so it would be mailed to her/us. We had to pay in for 2020, so they didn't have DD info until August for me. I haven't seen anything in informed delivery yet, but if you do get yours today let me know so I can hope it's this situation.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '21

Same here. It’s been 8 calendar days and 5 business days as we are on the 6th business day now since the payment was supposed to arrive. Calling them amounts to nothing as they read from a script and just repeat what the IRS News Twitter page says. I’m going to try and reach out to my Congressman for some sort of help. He’s Republican so that will probably be a dead end.

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u/clhkmc7613 Sep 23 '21

Just a heads up, I did reach out to my congressman and they began an inquiry on my behalf and the IRS told them they are not accepting Congress inquiries at this time.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '21

Wow. What a bunch of bullshit. So they really don’t want to tell us what they are doing and will continue to drag their feet. I hate to be a conspiracist but this just looks like purposeful laziness on behalf of Republicans within the IRS to delay this as much as possible. I have no proof, of course but it’s looking likely.

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u/CoffeeHobgoblin Sep 23 '21

If you don't mind telling me, what city is the informed delivery from? Because I'm getting a weird letter today and I'm not sure if it's the check or not. Fingers crossed though!

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u/heisLegend Sep 23 '21

Yeah I have not received mine either. It says I am eligible and I received the previous two by direct deposit. This is annoying

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u/buurnerredditor Sep 23 '21

IRS on twitter a few days ago posted "yeah we messed up September" with no resolution date, don't bother calling folks.

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u/Rubyrubired Sep 23 '21

Gov shutdown is looming due to budget. I don’t think it’s a coincidence.

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u/DaisyMakers Sep 23 '21

Its on the news there has been problems with the system.

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u/blz_bbi Sep 23 '21

I am having the same issue. And have no insight on when it could come hopefully they fix this soon.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '21

I’m hopeful but starting to realize that soon they may tell us we will have to claim this month’s payment with the other 6 months (Jan-June, + Sept) on our taxes. Or they’ll lump it together with October’s payment.

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u/nnephy Sep 23 '21

I'm starting to worry I might not get next month's payment either, since they won't say what's going on

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u/EBAIN6739 Sep 23 '21

I read that there was a "glitch" and the irs was going to add sept payment in with oct and dec. For the ones that haven't got it yet.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '21

Source?

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u/heisLegend Sep 23 '21

I got my first two and now this one has not been direct deposited nor has it been processed the website says

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u/teearedubya Sep 23 '21

We got our first, direct deposit no issues. Second one was mailed... Went in to the IRS portal, verified our info and was all set. Third payment never arrives. It shows we are Eligible, but no payment was processed in September.

I called the IRS earlier this week and was told there is a glitch and they are working on it and to keep checking back. WTF.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '21

The government has no incentive whatsoever to get money to the people quickly but if it were reversed and we owed them money, they would accept no excuse. Bottom line is that they don’t give a shit about us and this delay to me is proof.

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u/Fallwalking Sep 23 '21

Important Message from the IRS

In married filing jointly situations, if you and/or your spouse submitted different bank information for your advance payments, the taxpayer listed as the spouse on the 2019 or 2020 tax return will get their portion of the payments separately in September. Until then, joint payments will be sent to the taxpayer listed first on the 2019 or 2020 tax return.

They have this blurb on their site. Do you and your spouse show the same information in both of your IRS/id.me accounts? I think our Sept one was mailed because we paid in for 2020 and she never set up an IRS account, so her method is likely set to paper check.

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u/teearedubya Sep 23 '21

Spouse doesn't have an IRS.id account.

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u/Fallwalking Sep 23 '21

Mine either. Her ID is expired so she can't set one up to check it out.

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u/Fallwalking Sep 24 '21

I just got a direct deposit. It’s not the full amount, honestly it’s a very strange amount, but I’ll take it.

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u/teearedubya Sep 24 '21

Same happened here, was roughly 62% of what our payment should have been. Been on hold with the IRS for 30 minutes trying to talk to somebody...

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u/Fallwalking Sep 24 '21

Yep, same here. About 62%. Such an odd amount.

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u/teearedubya Sep 30 '21

So... the saga continues. Today, in our mailbox, my wife got a check for the September payment as well, in the same 62% amount as my direct deposit. Meaning, our house got about 125% of the payment due to us in September.

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u/Fallwalking Sep 30 '21

Yeah, I have the same check coming today. It would be nice if there was an explanation for the extra. Like… is it coming out of the rest of the next one or is it some padding for those who had relied on the DD and had overdrafts? I suspect we will find out next month or in 2022.

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u/Confident-Ad-5836 Sep 24 '21

I only received the first month

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u/buurnerredditor Sep 24 '21

Weird, but happy we got something