IRS Responds to Rumors of ‘Fourth Stimulus Check’ Coming in November

An IRS spokesperson has clarified that rumors spreading online that a fourth round of stimulus checks is going out to 10 states on Nov. 30 is false.

A COVID-19 related stimulus check from the U.S. Treasury arrives in the mail in Milton, Mass., on March 25, 2021. Brian Snyder/Reuters

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has addressed rumors that have emerged on social media claiming that a fourth round of stimulus checks will automatically go out to residents in 10 states on Nov. 30.

The rumor began after the IRS revealed on Nov. 17 that some Americans who were eligible to receive pandemic-era stimulus checks but didn’t apply for them could still get the money by filing amended tax returns for 2020 and 2021 and claiming the funds through the “recovery rebate credit.”