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Multiple Banks Have Reported Outages As People Check For Coronavirus Stimulus Checks (cnet.com) 86

Posted by BeauHD from the don't-worry-it's-coming dept.
Chase, Capital One, PNC Bank and others across the U.S. have reported outages with online and mobile banking Wednesday -- the same day the coronavirus IRS stimulus checks are expected to hit bank accounts of those eligible. CNET reports: Banks including Chase, Capital One, PNC Bank, US Bank and Navy Federal, as well as the app Cash App have all reported outages or access issues on Twitter support pages or their websites. Web outage monitoring site Down Detector also shows a spike in outages for these and other online banking services. Over 80 million Americans who have set up direct deposit with the IRS are expected to receive their coronavirus stimulus payments of up to $1,200 by the end of the day. Everyone else will get their check in the mail.
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Multiple Banks Have Reported Outages As People Check For Coronavirus Stimulus Checks

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  • Get My Payment direct link (Score:4, Informative)

    by The-Ixian ( 168184 ) on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @04:57PM (#59951922)

    https://www.irs.gov/coronaviru... [irs.gov]

    Update your Direct Deposit info

    • I followed that link and was told that they can't currently tell if I'm elegible or not. I don't need to file any more, but I do receive both Social Security and Disability Compensation from the VA and according to what's on that site, I shouldn't have any problems receiving my "check" by Direct Deposit.

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by dissy ( 172727 )

        If you do not make enough to file, you should definitely be eligible.
        But it seems only those putting a direct deposit account on this last IRS (federal) tax return get the stimulus as direct deposit.

        My mother has owed on her federal a couple years so naturally didn't provide direct deposit info, but does get SSA on direct deposit.
        The SSA went in today but not the IRS stimulus.

        I would guess that if the IRS link didn't let you update your info, what they have for SSA won't be used and they will send you a che

        • If you do not make enough to file, you should definitely be eligible.

          For direct deposit, sure, but the word on the grape vine is that those who didn't file won't get shit.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by dissy ( 172727 )

            For direct deposit, sure, but the word on the grape vine is that those who didn't file won't get shit.

            I was using official info from https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus/non-filers-enter-payment-info-here [irs.gov]

            Officially if you are on SSA you qualify, and if you didn't file taxes with direct deposit info you should by default get a check, otherwise you are to use the direct deposit update link to get it that way.
            I'm not saying your rumor isn't going to turn out true, but until it does I personally don't feel right repeating it.

  • Who is donating the Coronavirus stimulus checks? https://twitter.com/brewster_k... [twitter.com]
    • I'm going to stimulate the local economy. Keep businesses afloat. The liquor store seems pretty hard up. Glad it's an essential business and still open.
    • It's meant to keep the economy afloat. That means spending it on whatever you think is most important for the economy - whether it be food, housing, bills (paying off debt), or video games. Essentially, we're holding an election on what parts of the economy are most important to us, that the stimulus checks are our ballot. If you don't need the money and wish to donate it, then buy something you feel is important (like food) and donate that instead. But don't donate the cash. That's basically giving yo

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by spitzak ( 4019 )

        I have no idea what you are trying to say, except perhaps some anger that the money might go to homeless. If he donates his check to a charity, he is clearly saying "whatever the charity wants to buy is the part of the economy that is important to me". Also I think you way underestimate how hard it is to donate food.

      • First rule of charity: if you're not providing skilled labor or cash, you're more interested looking charitable than you are with helping people. Giving food is about the worst possible way to help out. Giving clothes comes right after that.

        If you think you know what poor people need, stop for a moment, pull your head out your ass, and write a check.

    • Who is donating the Coronavirus stimulus checks?

      My tenants are probably donating theirs to the Lexus dealer so they have have another new car to get repo'd in a few months. They've gone through three in the last year and a half and complain they have a hard time making rent.

    • Morons who don't understand that it's your own money and you're borrowing it from the IRS. Smart people will spend it on basic needs, invest it, or let it sit in the bank until April 2022 when it'll have to be paid back.
      • no, they won't. it's an advance on a refundable tax credit of the same amount. If you didn't take it now, it be added to your refund (or deducted from the amount you owe). either way you get the money, it's only a question of when.

        • They say "money doesn't grow in trees". In fact money doesn't grow in Congress. Saying "tax credit" doesn't make $2 trillion dollars appear. In fact, the government has decided that now is a good time for us *borrow* a shit-ton of money and they borrowed $2.4 trillion on our behalf.

          We borrowed $2.4 trillion and mailed some of it out.
          Whether we call it "tax credit" or "purple lollipop" doesn't really change anything. There are about 130 million households in the United States. Those 130 million household

  • According to multiple news reports, you are able to check the status of your payment at this IRS webpage. [irs.gov] I have tried all day. I tried with my SSN, I tried with my wife's. Each time all that I received was:

    According to information that we have on file, we cannot determine your eligibility for a payment at this time.

    For more information on the eligibility rules, see our Frequently Asked Questions page. [irs.gov]

    Within that FAQ, it includes the following information:

    If you filed your 2018 or 2019 tax return and it ha

    • I've had the exact same experience.

    • We haven't filed 2019 yet but got our direct deposit today. They are supposedly doing it by reverse income (so lowest income first) and I can anecdotally confirm this: my single sister got hers yesterday while my wife and I joint file. So that could explain your delay.

      • Not thinking that's entirely the case. My wife and I filed our 2019 jointly in January, and got our stimulus today. My single sister and single nephew, who have not filed their 2019s yet, have not yet received their checks to my knowledge.

        Parents are on SSA and pensions, filed their taxes yesterday, and paid, by direct withdrawal. I'm a shade confused on how they're going to get their check. On the one hand, the IRS has their banking info, (to make the withdrawal for the tax payment,) but because they didn'

    • Just check your bank account. There is $2400 pending right now.

      • Mine landed this morning, but like the story says, my bank had a temporary outage as everybody tried to log in at the same time. But it works fine now.

  • Putting the name of a Candidate in an election year on government bailout checks must surely be in violation of every decent election laws, I mean some countries forbid even giving out free water or _any_ food, even a cookie, in their laws.

    • So is using fraud to get warrants for wiretapping a competing candidate during an election - but I see a lot of people just want to sweep that under the rug...
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        • Sweeping what under the rug? The FBI getting those warrants to investigate very real and proven Russian influence in the election

          Influences, it turns out, to help Ms. Clinton. And the FBI knew all the stuff about President Trump was false well before the election [justthenews.com]. Don't let your hate blind you to actual fraud and illegal actions by your Government - unless you want to be ruled, rather than be a citizen.

          The same FBI concocted an October surprise to sink the Clinton campaign if you remember, suddenly announcing they had emails they had to investigate from the Clinton email server without any reason to suppose those emails contained anything dubious at all

          Given that Comey AGAIN said he didn't see anything wrong (even though the truth is opposite what he claimed [cnbc.com]), it was done to try to spike continuing noise about Clinton's illegal actions. It was an attempt to run interference to sa

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by spitzak ( 4019 )

      Hey I don't like Trump either, but I actually don't see any kind of violation here. I believe Bush put his name on his refund checks as well.

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        • Re: (Score:2)

          by spitzak ( 4019 )

          You are right I could not find a really similar example from any Democrat. But it just seems like saying "Trump can't sign anything while running for re-election" which is silly, that would mean he could not sign any laws or executive orders. Though that might be a good thing, it is obviously not how the government was intended to work.

    • He is also the President, whether you choose to accept it or not.

  • Although some people have received them a few days earlier. https://www.cnet.com/personal-... [cnet.com]

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by psergiu ( 67614 )

      Digital Credit Union - got it on the 13th.
      ( DCU is the last remaining part of the once great Digital Equipment Corporation - so their servers never go down and their website is as easy to navigate as VMS )

  • A half hour ago my wife asked me to check.

  • A check? More like a loan (Score:3)

    by wakeboarder ( 2695839 ) on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @05:47PM (#59952114)

    Your going to pay for the money you get from the government in some way shape or form, its more like a loan from the future, facilitated by the government. If the majority of Americans had an emergency fund and weren't living paycheck to paycheck, we wouldn't have to do stuff like this.

    • That's not how stimulus works. It's a loan from the future paid for by a future that is made possible by the loan. Think of it as getting a loan for buying a delivery truck so you can do deliveries and make money.

      Even when you're not living paycheck to paycheck such stimulus payments are still necessary for the economy. These paychecks aren't to keep people afloat, they are for people to spend, directly contributing to GDP and bolstering the economy, preventing losses in jobs, companies, and keeping economi

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  • My wife spent the better part of her day getting the backlog of people calling in about not being able to see their accounts. She was even hearing conspiracies revolving around fraud from within the bank itself about why the servers were randomly unavailable. Being in the IT crowd, I guarantee you it was their servers just couldn't keep up with demand and since banks generally don't use cloud services for this kind of thing, there was no direction to scale to address the demand.
  • Check in mail? As in a physical paper check? Could someone explain to me why these are still a thing on that side of the pond?

    I understand the concept and have probably even seen one when I was a kid in early 90-ies, but I have never in my life actually used one, why would anyone need to?

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      • Sorry, none of that makes any sense to me. What is there to protect in bank details, it's just account code where to send money, you can't do anything else with it. Any tax agency worth it's salt already knows what is going on at your bank account anyway. And still none of that explains why paper checks are not history.

  • Great work, Webster. Let's simplify the language by making completely unrelated words have the same spelling. Because that's never caused any confusion before has it? Or is that a leading question - or is it a question about putting lead on (but not on your dog)?

  • As a single person, I apparently make too much to get a check. If I were married, not only would I be getting one, but I (and my theoretical wife) would be getting twice as much. Of course, if I were married (and nothing in my income changed), my 2019 taxes would have been several thousands of dollars less, as well.

    I guess on the bright side, I'm still employed and healthy and well off enough to not need a stimulus check. But it is depressing when the government gives my tax money to lots of other people

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