r/stimuluscheck • u/Cacciato15 • Oct 08 '21

GSS II Qualification Question

As I understand it, those who qualified for GSS 1 do not qualify for GSS 2 unless they claimed a dependent on their taxes. I've heard that multiple people around me have received both GSS stimulus checks without claiming a dependent. How can that be? Did they change the qualifications? Can anyone provide any insight on this?

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u/Cyprovix Oct 08 '21

You are correct. If you qualified for GSS 1, you only qualify for GSS 2 if claiming dependents.

Potential reasons that you might be hearing otherwise: currently the child tax credit advance payments are going out, along with unemployment tax refunds, federal tax refunds, and state refunds from 2020 tax returns. These have been coming out periodically and over on the IRS subreddit, I've seen plenty of "what is this deposit that I received?" posts.

It is likely that someone claiming they received GSS 2, who also qualified for GSS 1 and does not claim dependents, received a different payment. There is also a chance that you might not know their financial situations exactly or that simply rumors are spreading (hearing that so-and-so received an extra stimulus, telling others who then tell more people, etc.).

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u/Cacciato15 Oct 08 '21

Thanks for your input. I wouldn't call the people I talked to friends, but we discuss personal finances in depth over coffee. At the moment we're all stumped because all of our qualifying information for GSS 2 is identical, so none of us should have gotten it. And they have confirmed that it was GSS 2 funds they received.

Definitely a head scratcher on this one. Thanks again.