US Stimulus Check Update: Around 15 Million People Have Yet To Receive Their Stimulus Checks

Recent reports estimate that around 15 million people belonging to the low-income strata in the U.S. have still not received their stimulus checks.

According to a source, two published reports authored by two of Washington's reputable non-profit and non-partisan policy institutes surmised this theory.

The first one being the New America -- a think tank which focuses on a range of public policy issues which said that around 5 million to 15 million people have not yet received their payment. The second one being the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities -- a research and policy think tank focusing on federal and state policies - which estimates the non-receivers to be around 12 million.

Tara McGuiness of New America said that their research saw what seems to be a well-played irony as those who seem to be needing the payments most are those who are the least likely to receive them.

In its first round of payments, the stimulus checks amounting to $1,200 per individual adult, $2,400 for married couples, and $500 for each child under the age of 17 went to the pockets of some qualified Americans in April. This followed after the $2.2 trillion budget for the CARES Act which stands for Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act had been passed in March.

The said act also grants the payment of $600 a week to American workers who lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic.

The source cited the dilemma being faced by a certain Tianna Gaines-Turner, a housing stabilization specialist from Philadelphia. Although she and her husband have received the $2,400 check for couples, they were not able to receive the $500 for each of their children due to a mistake in the recording of their ages upon the filing of her taxes.

Also experienced by non-filers who do not make enough money to file yearly taxes, cases like this are cumbersome to resolve as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has not yet created an online way to re-file seeing how they are no longer accepting paper addendums as part of the country's COVID-19 preventive measures.

In response to this, the IRS does seem to be working all-out to resolve this and as of June 5, the Treasury Department has estimated that around 30 million to 35 million payments are yet to be doled out.

Both reports from the New America and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities suggest that the IRS could make information like whose checks are still unaccounted for available to the public so concerned states can act on them.

Officials from the Trump Administration reasoned that the said problems have been a result of the size and urgent execution of the payments but gave an assurance that the future processes will go smoother -- especially as lawmakers have been in the talks of a second round of stimulus checks to be released in August.