Can’t get your stimulus check info? Try this simple fix

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The coronavirus stimulus check tracker launched by the IRS has been giving many people an error message when they visit the site — a message like “payment status not available.”
The IRS launched that tool after Congress passed its $2.2 trillion stimulus legislation that appropriated billions of dollars for direct checks to Americans.
If you get that message, here’s a workaround you can try to fix it.
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For a few weeks now, I’ve been checking the IRS’s coronavirus stimulus payment website once a day to see whether the tax agency finally says I’m eligible for the direct payments funded by last months’ $2.2 trillion stimulus legislation passed by Congress. It took a while to finally get that confirmation at the site, which kept giving me a “payment status not available” error message.

The site, by the way, is a tracker launched by the IRS — which is the agency mailing out the stimulus payments that amount to direct cash infusions to most Americans of up to $1,200 for individuals and $2,400 for married couples, including an extra $500 for each qualifying child. No surprise, it’s been inundated with traffic as Americans desperate for their direct payment from the government check on its status at a time when the jobless rate in the country is approaching levels not seen since the Great Depression. But what if you keep getting the error message that I saw?

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