Manuel Rivera (*) tells us that he did not declare taxes in 2018 or 2019 because for years he has not worked to dedicate himself to caring for his mother. She is also not receiving Social Security benefits at this time, and so she is asking us what she can do to receive the $ 1,200 financial aid check that the federal government will send amid the pandemic of coronavirus.
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For Social Security or railroad retirement beneficiaries who typically do not have to file taxes, the IRS will focus on their Social Security benefits statement (specifically the documents SSA-1099 and RRB-1099). That is why the IRS has said that those people do not need to take any actionsuch as filing a simple tax return to receive the aid ‘check’.
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Rivera’s situation is different since he did not file taxes in 2018 or 2019 for not having received income, and he still does not receive Social Security benefits.
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For these cases, The IRS opened this Friday a free tool for those who did not file taxes in 2018 or 2019 because their income was less than $ 12,200 ($ 24,400 for married couples) or because “for other reasons” they were not required to do so, they can enter their information for the processing of their aid ‘check’.
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This includes people who had no income in those years, as is the case of Rivera.
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“Do not use this application if you receive Social Security retirement benefits, Social Security disability benefits, or railroad retirement benefits because we already have your information and you will receive the $ 1,200,” specifies the IRS.
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Remember that People who provide their bank information for direct deposit usually receive their refunds more quickly., in this case the aid ‘check’.
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This tool had been advanced to Univision Noticias by tax experts. “The IRS and those preparing the returns are evaluating a free way for people with zero income to place $ 1 (as I enter in 2019) to facilitate processing (and thus avoid problems with the software) “, he had specified Chuck Marr, director senior federal tax policy Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
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Is there a way to speed up the money transfer?
There are millions of people in the United States who do not file taxes because their incomes are extremely low and they also do not receive Social Security benefits. That group includes, for example, people under the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program and some veterans.
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Those people can also use the tool opened this Friday by the IRS or file a simple tax return.
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On the other hand, tax experts recommend that Social Security beneficiaries usually do not need to file taxes to do so in order to receive the money more quickly. This is despite the IRS notifying them that they do not need to file a simple return.
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The IRS decided to verify Social Security benefit statements so that what happened in the 2008 financial crisis did not happen again, when some 3 million people were without financial aid from the federal government because they were required to file a tax return simple and they didn’t because they weren’t used to doing them.
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The problem that experts see with the revision of these SSA-1099 forms is that it can take months, that’s why They consider that filing a simple tax return can speed up the sending of the ‘check’.
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“The IRS receives nearly 3 billion 1099 documents from many sources (financial institutions, contracting companies, state governments, the Social Security Administration, among others) (…) Many of those documents are not fully processed, nor verified if they contain errors or hunt with the corresponding tax declaration until the declaration season ends, “he explains in a letter Janet Holtzblatt, from the Tax Policy Center.
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(*) We safeguard the name of the person who wrote to us with your inquiry.
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