There are still thousands of people waiting for the money from federal aid to help households of the United States to bear the financial coup of the pandemic. Some have been told by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that the ‘check’ was sent but still do not receive it. While others received a debit card in their mailbox, which they mistaken for a promotional letter and threw away.
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This has happened to some people because the ‘economic impact payment cards’ or EIP Cards They arrive in an envelope whose sender is not the IRS and when they open it, they come across a letter and a debit card that can be confused with one of the offers that financial institutions usually make.
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Héctor Manuel Castro told Univision Noticias that the envelope in which he received his read the Treasury Department. Inside, the letter effectively mentions that it is the so-called ‘economic impact payment’, but the language in which it is written can be confusing because it focuses on explaining how to activate it through the issuing bank, the MetaBank, but it does not abound on the topic of financial aid due to the pandemic.
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Keep in mind that, as we tell you hereThis card has been sent to some 4 million people to speed up the processing of federal aid for the unprecedented public health crisis.
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Here is an example of what the card is like and we explain what to do if you inadvertently threw yours in the trash.
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If your income is low and you don’t need to file taxes annually, here we explain what to do to ask the IRS for your pandemic aid ‘check’.
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