IRS Extends Deadline to Register for Stimulus Payments

Blank U.S. Treasury checks are run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility in Philadelphia, Pa., on July 18, 2011. William Thomas Cain/Getty Images

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said that it’s giving some recipients of federal benefits more time to register for stimulus payments for their children in 2020.

The $1,200 stimulus payments for adults and $500 payments for children under the age of 17 were authorized in March’s Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.