The National Taxpayer Advocate (NTA) is part of the IRS. The NTA's blog is offering a long explanation for why the Department of the Treasury is only offering a limited window of time for Social Security and SSI recipients to file "tax returns" so that their children can receive economic stimulus payments. The whole thing is based upon the ridiculous premise that all these payments must be sent out in one big batch. The possibility of sending out a big batch now and then sending out smaller batches of payments later as people make the requisite filings seems to be beyond the ken of anyone at IRS. Perhaps more important, like the rest of the IRS, the NTA can't seem to comprehend that the Social Security Administration already has information on the dependents of those receiving Title II Social Security benefits and that information could be used to make payments to the parents of those children.
At least, the NTA is saying that maybe something should be done about this situation although it makes conflicting recommendations that either Congress do something or the IRS do something. Maybe the IRS should do something and if they don't, maybe the Congress should tell them to do something.
If there are further economic stimulus payments to be made, I'm not eager for the Social Security Administration to make them but it's clear to me that having the IRS do it was a terrible idea. They're out of their depth.
Something needs to be done in opening the window back up for Social Security and Disability recipients to be able to get the $500.00 for their children. It was not fair to begin with that the window was so small. Most people did not even know about having to do this and most people do not even have computers and if they did wouldn't know how to use them. Anyone on either of these should be getting their money for their child now not next year. The problem I have with next year is that these people will not be elgible to get this for their child or children because the government will say there is no money for that. who can I contact to complain about this even tho it proably will not make a difference. How hard would it be for them to open the window back up so people know when it is and so they can get the info input so they can get their money for their child?
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