# Just Got a Notice From the IRS to Expect a Stimulus Payment **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 10, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-a-notice-from-the-irs-to-expect-a-stimulus-payment/937655 "2021-03-10T23:34:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-a-notice-from-the-irs-to-expect-a-stimulus-payment/937655/1 "2021-03-10T23:34:17Z")
Like it says on the tin. A couple of points, though: This notice was for the second round of payments. The notice was dated February 18th. I actually got my payment direct deposited back in early January. And the notice instructed me to contact the IRS if I hadn’t received my payment within seven days of receipt of the notice. So… ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-a-notice-from-the-irs-to-expect-a-stimulus-payment/937655/2 "2021-03-11T03:08:34Z")
Well I guess they put higher priority on getting the actual payments out than they put on getting notices out to tell you about it, which you had probably noticed already anyway. I assume the notice you refer to is the “Form 1444-B”, which at least didn’t have Trump’s illegible signature on it this time. I got my 2nd payment in my bank account on Jan. 1. A few weeks later, I looked up my account at the IRS site just to see what it said, and it said the payment was made on Jan. 4. Go figure. Then I got my 1444-B just last week, which I suppose I need to figure out how to do my taxes this year, although I already got that done two weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-a-notice-from-the-irs-to-expect-a-stimulus-payment/937655/3 "2021-03-11T03:24:11Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Well I guess they put higher priority on getting the actual payments out than they put on getting notices out to tell you about it, which you had probably noticed already anyway. Oh, yeah, it’s not a complain or anything, just a Mundane Pointless bit of Stuff I thought I Must Share. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-a-notice-from-the-irs-to-expect-a-stimulus-payment/937655/4 "2021-03-11T15:08:31Z")
Same thing for us: We got our payment on 1/4 and the notification to expect payment came way later. It confused us for a bit as we tried to determine what payment was yet to come. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-a-notice-from-the-irs-to-expect-a-stimulus-payment/937655/5 "2021-03-13T08:09:58Z")
“Show me the money!” I always say. When Dish network ever sends me that free gift card I’ll post it. Just sayin’ ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-a-notice-from-the-irs-to-expect-a-stimulus-payment/937655/6 "2021-03-14T01:54:02Z")
Several of us have gotten this letter in the past week or so in my FB local group. ---
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-a-notice-from-the-irs-to-expect-a-stimulus-payment/937655/7 "2021-03-14T17:36:13Z")
I am just speculating, but perhaps this is the IRS’s way of checking on whether their records are correct. As I understand it, millions of those $600 checks went (temporarily) astray. If the letter comes back as undeliverable, the IRS would know there will be a problem. Not that they have the staff or resources to fix the problem, but at least they would know. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-a-notice-from-the-irs-to-expect-a-stimulus-payment/937655/8 "2021-03-14T18:00:54Z")
Except that I received my payment through direct deposit, and the form letter I received specifically stated that was how I was scheduled to receive it. The payment had already gone through electronically weeks before, and I’d have to think it would be a _lot_ easier for the IRS to notice and track a problem with that than with a returned letter. And since I got a direct deposit, my physical address is irrelevant. It makes sense as a physical double-check to ensure that 1) I was aware that a deposit had been made, and 2) that it actually went to my bank account. It was just funny to me that the physical notice was dated over a month after the electronic payment had been made, and I actually received it three weeks after _that_, and the letter told me to _expect_ a payment, and inform the IRS if I hadn’t received it within seven days (I received, but not within seven days - it was more like seven _weeks_ previously). ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-a-notice-from-the-irs-to-expect-a-stimulus-payment/937655/9 "2021-03-14T20:48:28Z")
We got the most recent $1400 each on the day Biden signed the bill. Amazingly efficient. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-a-notice-from-the-irs-to-expect-a-stimulus-payment/937655/10 "2021-03-14T21:22:38Z")
In the first two rounds, I got mine pretty early on. Not on the day the bill was signed, though! Still haven’t seen the third round payment, but I figure I’ll give the IRS another day or two to get its act together 😉. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-a-notice-from-the-irs-to-expect-a-stimulus-payment/937655/11 "2021-03-17T13:35:24Z")
I got my third round stimulus payment direct deposited today. I wonder how long it will be until I get the letter in the mail telling me to expect it within the next seven days…