The IRS on Wednesday updated its website to say that people who have died do not qualify for the coronavirus relief payments and that: 'A Payment made to someone who died before receipt of the Payment should be returned.'
from the relief package, which was authorized by Congress as part of a $2 trillion package.
The Treasury Department called the payments to deceased people as well as those who are incarcerated as inadvertent. Experts have said that because of a lag in reporting data on who is deceased, the error is almost inevitable and has occurred with past stimulus payments as well,Even before the formal guidance Wednesday, Jeanne Siracuse of northern Virginia planned to return to the Treasury the $1,200 that was direct deposited for her mother who died in August.May 1, 2020The coronavirus payments were largely based on 2018 or 2019 federal tax returns.
Congress passed the CARES Act that authorized the direct payments as well as other measures in March, and President Donald TrumpThe package was sparked by economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus epidemic, which resulted in businesses across the nation
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