If your third-round stimulus payment is lost, stolen or destroyed, you can ask the IRS to perform a “payment trace” to see if your check was cashed or direct deposit misdirected. Ultimately, if everything goes smoothly, you’ll be issued a new payment. That’s the good news.
Should I keep my old stimulus debit card?
Once you activate the debit card, the money will remain accessible to you. Money on the card will not be returned to the government unless you return your card to MetaBank, according to the IRS.
Are there any problems with the stimulus debit cards?
Americans continue to face problems with accessing stimulus debit cards, with some people receiving cards they can’t use due to the wrong names being printed on them. Issues in the past few weeks have included some people receiving the blank, inconspicuous envelopes the cards come in and throwing them away, not recognizing what they contain. Yahoo!
What happens if you cut up your stimulus payment?
Don’t feel bad if you accidentally cut up your federal stimulus payment. You’ve got a lot of company. It’s not your fault you thought the prepaid debit card was a scam, or just more junk mail. The federal government misled at least 4 million people about how they would get their stimulus.
Do you need to discard your stimulus card?
One final piece of advice: If you get a prepaid stimulus card, don’t discard it after you’ve spent the money. One person I heard from said her bank advised her to keep it because if there is a second round of stimulus payments, it may be loaded to previous cards.
Who was the man who shredded his debit card?
Pat Mazza, the Easton man I interviewed last week after he shredded his card, told me he called Money Network/MetaBank, which is issuing the cards for the Treasury, and arranged to have another sent. He retrieved the paperwork with the card from his recycling bin, so he had the bank’s number.