Yes, I got one of these. IT turns out that when I went looking for records of which stimulus payments we received, we only found the direct deposit record for one of them (but there were two – apparently one came as a paper check, which we cashed but forgot about by the time we did our taxes). So they said we owe 2 grand.
There is actually a way to go to the IRS website, sign up for an account, verify yourself, and see which payments you received (this is by SSN, so if you’re married you will need your wife to sign up for an account as well, even if you filed jointly)
You will have to give a few pieces of confirming info, including a mobile number and some credit card digits or loan number from a mortgage or auto loan, and it will let you see what payments you got so you can verify you included them properly.
I think it’s something screwy with the stimulus check/s and filling out taxes. Both my Mom and my Wife and I received rebates that where larger than we thought they would be, but now the IRS is asking for more.
There’s a lot of “the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing” out there when it deals with taxes etc.
My inlaws had part of their stimulus withheld (FIL’s portion, I think) because of a fraudulent return that was filed in their name for 2019.
They had long since filed a fraud report with the IRS - but that was in 2020, and as far as we know nothing has been done about it, beyond holding up the stimulus many months later.
Frankly I’m surprised the IRS is getting to the “gimme money back” letter so comparatively soon after the credits were paid.
On another note: Back when there was the extra 600/week for unemployment recipients, somehow there were two specific weeks (one in late April 2020, and the first week in May, 2020) for which something glitched, somewhere, a few months later, and a LOT of people had this extra 600 bucks show up for one, the other, or both of those two weeks.
So around April of this year, someone got wise to it and started sending out “you’ve been overpaid” letters and demanding repayment. And then docking future unempoyment benefits, even when the people had already repaid it (left hand, here’s what right hand is doing). I think that got straightened out - but in the meantime, there was a not-well-publicized process where the people could request a waiver of the repayment.
Yeah. I donno. This wasn’t a monthly check or anything. My Wife and I should never have received anything as far as I’m concerned. We are DINKS, never lost our jobs or where in hardship.
I do our taxes through H&R online. They are very simple. No deductions or kids or anything. I went through it closely and was surprised we where getting back so much. OK, I said and submitted it. Now the IRS is asking for reimbursement (don’t know how much, my Wife call me today, she picks up our mail).
Why did they send the reimbursement in the first place???