Senate Democrats have called on the Trump administration to ensure COVID-19 cash assistance is paid out quickly to eligible recipients with dependent children who may have missed a tight registration deadline that made it possible for them to get stimulus checks for their kids sooner than when they file a tax return next year.
On Monday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced a 48-hour window for people like Social Security recipients and railroad retirement beneficiaries—groups that aren’t required to file yearly tax returns—to submit information about their dependent children via the agency’s “Non-Filers” payment info tool. If they submitted this info by an April 22 deadline, it meant that $500 per child would be added to their $1,200 economic impact payments, which are paid out automatically. People who didn’t meet the deadline could still get the payments for their children but would have to wait until they file a tax return in 2021.
