The IRS began sending coronavirus stimulus payments to Americans over the past several days. Some of that money made its way into the accounts of deceased individuals.
The IRS may have made this latest snafu due to the administrative resources at its disposal and the speed with which the agency has been trying to issue the one-time payments, according to tax experts.
The IRS largely relies on the SSA for up-to-date death records, experts said. But that information could take anywhere from a few months to a year or more to trickle in after someone's death, according to Leonard Burman, co-founder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. However, if an individual died in 2019 and their most recent tax return on file was for 2018, it's conceivable the deceased could have received a $1,200 stimulus payment, according to Holtzblatt.
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