What to do if your stimulus check is deposited into the wrong bank account | The State
If you have a closed bank account, the IRS will send the money from the second stimulus check to you by other means.
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Officially, the IRS began sending the second stimulus check this Monday, January 4.. The former will be sent through direct deposits in the bank accounts of eligible individuals. However, some of these accounts may no longer be used by their owners.
And you should take into account that the IRS is distributing the second stimulus check based on the information you provided on your 2019 tax return, on the Get My Payment page, or in the Non-Filers tool.
Unfortunately, it is currently impossible to change that information you already gave, so the check will be sent to the bank account you put there.
In the first round of stimulus checks that began to be issued in March 2020, the IRS said banks would reject deposits sent to bank accounts that were closed and then send payments by mail.
Therefore, this process will be the same this time.
In other words, if you closed an account that you previously gave to the IRS, they will send your second paper stimulus check through traditional mail. All this, after the bank notifies them that your account is inactive, as reported in the Money portal.
So you already know, If your money was sent to the wrong account, take a good look at your mailbox, because that’s where the second stimulus check will arrive.
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