How To Find Out When Stimulus Is Coming

It'south always overnice to conceptualize an influx of cash, specially if things accept been a scrap tight lately. The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which was signed into law on March 11th, 2021, includes Economic Touch on Payments in the amount of $1,400 or less, depending on your reported income. In fact, equally of Wednesday, March 17th, you may have already gotten yours; that was when the commencement payments began hitting bank accounts.

Then if you lot've been using straight deposit to pay your federal taxes (or get your tax refunds), then check your bank account. If yous don't use direct eolith and you qualify for a payment, you should get either a check or a prepaid Economic Impact Payment (EIP) card in the postal service.

Haven't seen anything yet and desire to find out your status?

The all-time way to discover out where your payment is (and if one is coming) is via the IRS'due south "Get My Payment" tool, which volition tell you whether you're eligible and, if so, when you will encounter the payment.

If you use the tool and are getting a "Payment Status Non Available" message, then, according to the IRS, this ways "either we have not processed your payment yet, nosotros exercise non have enough information to outcome you a payment or you are not eligible for a payment."

How do you know if you're eligible?

It'due south complicated. Whether yous go a payment can depend on what your adjusted gross income (AGI) was, based on your 2020 taxes (if you lot've already filed) or your 2019 taxes (if you oasis't). The AGI is basically the corporeality yous earned that year minus such things as contributions to a retirement account, and it tin normally be found on line 8b of your 1040 tax course.

If y'all are an individual and your AGI was below $75,000, y'all qualify. If your AGI was at least $75,000 but below $80,000, you will get a portion of the $1,400. But if your AGI was $eighty,000 or college, you're completely out of luck.

This changes, of form, if y'all're the head of a household (in which case, yous get $1,400 if yous make beneath $112,500 and nothing if yous make $120,000 or more) or a married couple who files jointly (in which example, you get the $1,400 if the AGI is below $150,000 and nil if it's at least $160,000).

There are a variety of calculators available online that tin tell you lot how much you tin can look.

Speaking of calculators, your AGI isn't the only factor being taken into consideration. There are other considerations equally well. Amid them:

Non-citizens don't become payment, although there are a number of exceptions. You are eligible if yous are: a non-citizen with a social security number, a lawful permanent resident (in other words, what is sometimes called a "greenish card" holder), a qualifying "resident conflicting", a member of a programme such as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), or have Temporary Protected Condition (TPS).
If you don't file taxes, you should exist okay — unless you also didn't file concluding year and didn't get a bank check, in which example, it might be a good thought to file.
Adult dependents in a household (such every bit higher students or elderly parents) volition authorize for payments as well.

The IRS has a FAQ that should respond near (if not all) of your questions.

What if y'all never got your first or 2nd stimulus payments?

If you lot were eligible for i or both of the first two stimulus payments just never received it, it'due south too late now to really get paid. You will have to apply for a Recovery Rebate Credit on your 2020 taxes. It's non as good as getting a straight payment, but at least you'll recover some of what y'all would take paid in taxes.

Update March 19th, eight:50AM ET: This article was originally published on March 18th, 2021, and has been updated to clarify which non-citizens tin receive the stimulus payment.