Did the law specify living taxpayers?

and they put in there will that this stimulus will be willed to the heirs.............

you could will the money to anyone else since if you die you are not legally eligible to receive the money in the first place.

There'd be a last filing for the deceased, and the tax code will have to have a specific date for disbursement.

Twelve days before the date of the check.

It wasn't obvious it was her stimulus check. It didn't say anything on the outside of the envelope except USTreasury, which could have been her tax refund. But after we opened it, we saw on the front a box. If the person is deceased, you are supposed to check the box and drop the check, envelope and all back into the mailbox. I assume it will get returned to the USTreasury.

We are sending it back, but this is the equivalent of ripping out stitches. She was poor. Her final medical expenses will probably outstrip what's left of her last SS check. There are businesses out there who will have to swallow the debt instead. For 16 days.

Yes, on the one hand it is supposed to help the living on the other hand, yes, when so many get millions.

I know she would want that money to go to needier people than her. But what are the chances that will happen?

n/t

She was 94yo. She was blessed with a long, healthy life. And I was blessed to have her with me for so long.

These ASSHOLES STEAL muti-millions and complain about people getting (returning) thousands!

I had a knee jerk reaction of "track me down," followed by a string of expletives.
These people are not bringing out the best in me.

Should they still have to return the money, Munchbag?

douchebag

Oh wait. He makes his "Ewwww" face whenever he says anything.

Funerals aren't cheap.

Frankly, we are retired, still get our SS checks and withdraw from retirement accounts - until RMD has been suspended. Did not need the money. As soon as we got it half of it went to charity and to my senator campaign. More will go to help others.

I told her not to spend the money since I am sure the govt will want it back.

The IRS can put liens against estates and garnish wages to recover it. They can also deduct it from tax refunds.

You certainly mastered the smiles function

to keep it. However, I charge fees when someone sends me money by mistake and I have to return it. A processing fee, a convenience fee, a re-mailing fee. Before you know it, there's nothing to send back!

If you are so wretched to have a family member die, and think that any good should come of it, ye shall have no bread. "Let them eat cake!"

on an unrelated level...
years ago i was on public aid and the courts were collecting the child support payments (when the father got around/felt like making one). those payments from him were kept by the state in order to reimburse the state for the public aid i was getting.

one time the system hiccuped and i got a second public aid check. i called about it and was told to send it back. i sent it back. they ended up fucking me out of a couple payments claiming to have never gotten that hiccup check back from me.

my point? families who get a deceased family member's check might get caught between a rock and a hard place. they might return the check and government claims to have never gotten it and the family ends up paying that money back out of their own pocket.

years and years later, for my business, i would file the the quarterly reports and always send it with return receipt requested. and there was one time i was being fined by either the state or federal (i forget) for not filing. turns out i had the card they signed and sent back. i remember the guy i had to speak to (several times about this matter) was pissed off that i was sending the form with return receipt requested all the time. LOL. he told me to stop doing that! (i wondered why? so they can say they never got it and try fining me again?)

Probably contributed to the deaths, I'd let the family keep the money.