Sometimes even news about the IRS can be sort of funny! How did this actually happen? OK, legislators were in a hurry and failed to exclude prison population from receiving these relief checks.
But why would the IRS have prison addresses on file? Do any prisoners file annual tax returns? Are they short-term prisoners or freshly incarcerated?
"Hundreds of thousands of dollars in coronavirus relief payments have been sent to people behind bars across the United States, and now the IRS is asking state officials to help claw back the cash that the federal tax agency says was mistakenly sent. The legislation authorizing the payments during the pandemic doesn’t specifically exclude jail or prison inmates ..."
US inmates got virus relief checks, and IRS wants them back
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