heads up! if you are waiting on your $600 check or gift card

[Kali]

be careful, the gift card comes in a cheap envelope as PRE-SORTED FIRST CLASS (just like most junk mail) and if you are like me you pretty much automatically toss that crap.

checked the trash on a hunch after talking about still not getting the CHECK that the IRS site indicated would come this week. there it was. disguised as a shitty fake credit card offer.

[babylonsister]

1. Thanks for the heads-up. My SO is in that boat;

he doesn't know how or when his check will appear, even filed a return in hopes he gets into the system, a system he is already in because he gets disability.

[Kali]

2. yeah this was crazy

got the last one direct deposited into the account I have used with the IRS for a decade or longer. and even got an ag support payment this month from the government dd'ed as well. this month! but the "get my money" link at irs.com indicated a check was mailed. then this stupid card is what I got. everybody else in my family or that I am close to got direct deposits, even one who got a paper check last time.

[MiniMe]

3. Mine was direct deposited

Took me a while to figure out what it was and where it came from.

[Kali]

13. ha!

better than a mystery withdrawal

[MiniMe]

16. It wasn't for $600, I got less

That is what confused me.

[MiniMe]

17. It wasn't for $600, I got less

That is what confused me.

[Initech]

4. I got mine direct deposited already.

The gift card route is a total slap in the face, seriously. Fuck you Mitch.

[Kali]

12. yeah

not real organized

[tblue37]

5. I got my $600 yesterday--as a paper check.

[Kali]

10. it is all so random!

[Chainfire]

6. I am still waiting for the to process my tax return.....no money until they do. (no, it wasn't late)

[Kali]

9. wow!

did you file by April 15 or the extension? (can't remember was it June or July?)

[panader0]

7. Gift card? What kind of card--Visa type or government issue? What does it look like?

[Kali]

8. visa

from something called metabank. with both my and husband's names on it.

[ananda]

11. Would the IRS send a gift card? That looks fishy.

I would check with someone you can trust first.

[Kali]

14. its a visa card

I'm using that term as a bit of snark

[Turin_C3PO]

15. Yes.

My mom received her $600 in a gift card. It looked like junk mail but it was legit.