Ok, we're going to get a covid $600 payment...

[Archae]

But WHEN???

[Frasier Balzov]

1. Has Trump indicated that he will sign the bill?

He's been trying to tack irrelevant measures onto bills lately.

[Polybius]

46. Yes

I think the vote is tonight.

[marybourg]

2. As soon as the malevolent nincompoop can

sign the checks.

[bdamomma]

3. $600?

is that a one time payment???? or continuous?? it should be continuous after all the pain and death they have caused.

[left-of-center2012]

7. One time payment

Use it to buy food for your family, pay the rent so you don't get evicted, pay the utilities so they don't shut off the power, and don't forget the payments on your car.

Enjoy !

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. Can I use it to buy a yacht? I'm so looking forward to that million dollar tax deduction.

I've been desperately looking through Craigslist in anticipation of a run on $600 yachts.

[bdamomma]

47. $600

isn't that like nothing??? It should be more. Sorry I believe that amount is like a slap in the face of Americans, or is it better than nothing??

[left-of-center2012]

48. It's a poke in the eye

"There ! I gave you something."

[bdamomma]

53. it's

more like a gut punch.

[smirkymonkey]

62. Who can pay one month of rent and bills w/ $600 measly dollars, let alone months of

backrent and overdue bills? That is such an insult to people who have been suffering for months. God, I hate republicans with a passion!

There is always enough money for corporate and 1% tax cuts, military contractors and wars (but not vets or enlisted people) and corporate welfare, but never enough for the people who are paying most of the taxes and doing most of the actual work in this country.

I can't understand how many people are so blind to the fact of how corrupt the party is and how they have done absolutely nothing for anyone who isn't part of the establishment or isn't part of the millionaire/billionaire class in decades.

[smirkymonkey]

63. Who can pay one month of rent and bills w/ $600 measly dollars, let alone months of

backrent and overdue bills? That is such an insult to people who have been suffering for months. God, I hate republicans with a passion!

There is always enough money for corporate and 1% tax cuts, military contractors and wars (but not vets or enlisted people) and corporate welfare, but never enough for the people who are paying most of the taxes and doing most of the actual work in this country.

I can't understand how many people are so blind to the fact of how corrupt the party is and how they have done absolutely nothing for anyone who isn't part of the establishment or isn't part of the millionaire/billionaire class in decades.

[Captain Stern]

60. In all fairness, it's a stimulus check.

These checks aren't really being issued to help out individuals that have been harmed by the pandemic.

They are being issued to help the economy as a whole.

The checks aren't being sent out to specifically help folks with rent, or bills, or whatever.

They are being sent out to folks that they hope will immediately spend them.....thus, stimulating the economy.

[lame54]

4. After you're evicted...

You no longer have an address to send it to?
Sorry

[lunatica]

13. Hopefully evicted people may still have bank accounts

so they can get theirs through automatic deposit.

[George II]

54. The eviction ban has been extended to the end of January (not long, of course) and hopefully....

....when the scourge is out of the white house another extension will be negotiated.

[Calculating]

61. Only if landlords are compensated

Can't ban evictions without compensating landlords.

[Thomas Hurt]

5. is this 75K adjusted gross income?

[Archae]

6. Supposedly, yes.

[jcgoldie]

19. The 75k is based on individual or a couple?

[themaguffin]

30. I believe it's like before, meaning that's the individual amount.

[jcgoldie]

32. Thought so thanks!

👍

[TexasBushwhacker]

44. Individual. $150K for a couple

You also get $600 per dependent child. So a couple under the income threshold with 2 kids at home gets $2400.

[George II]

57. Nobody knows yet. The bill was just released late yesterday, and the Senate passed it at 10:48 PM.

[RainCaster]

8. That won't even pay for the burial urn

WTF? So glad Moscow Mitch is feeling a turtle shell of pity for all of us.

[Akacia]

9. He doesn't.

The only reason it went through is because he is worried about holding on to power in the Senate.

[Polybius]

10. No idea, but probably at least three weeks

That’s about how long the last one took.

[left-of-center2012]

16. Took me about 5-6 weeks last time n/t

[Wounded Bear]

21. That's what I remember...

but then, I'm at the end of the alphabet. I've been last in line my whole life.

[FSogol]

22. Same here. Alphabet Discrimination!

[Wounded Bear]

24. I kind of screwed up, I think...

Being on SS, I should have gotten direct deposit. But I was a little worried because I don't file taxes, being too low on the income scale. So I filed a 2019 tax return. Since I didn't get a refund, I didn't send IRS my bank info. I think that's why I got a paper check.

I suppose it'll get here the same way it did the first time.

[left-of-center2012]

25. "I didn't send IRS my bank info"

Isn't your SS check direct deposited into your bank?

That's how I got my stimulus last time.

[Wounded Bear]

26. Yes it is, but I got a paper check, and that's the only reason why I can think of...nt

[Turin_C3PO]

43. I have direct deposit ssdi

but for some reason I got a paper check. I’m not sure why it wasn’t deposited in my bank account.

[George II]

59. We got ours via direct deposit. I think you had to go on some website to confirm....

....that your online information is still valid. We file our tax returns online and get direct deposit tax refunds.

I don't think it's connected to Social Security.

I was happy that I wasn't going to get a check with that moron's signature. But the fucker sent out letters to anyone who got direct deposit, so we still got that psychotic scrawl on a piece of paper.

[Polybius]

40. My last name is around the middle of the alphabet, and I got it a day or two after a B-name coworker

Three or so weeks after it was signed, direct deposit.

[Polybius]

39. Did you get direct deposit?

They were faster.

[left-of-center2012]

42. Yes

As I posted in #25 above.

[myohmy2]

11. if trump won't sign...

...because we won't let him steel the election, will I still get a $600 check?

...$600?

...how about $2400?

...

[lunatica]

14. If you qualify it's $600 per person, and includes kids.

I think each child will get that amount.

But at this point I don’t know if it’s useful to believe anything, either way.

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. How about a monthly amount like other countries have been doing?

What greedy evil rotten f#*kers REPUKES are.

[uponit7771]

20. +1, they're doing everything they can to go Biden's admin

[Polybius]

41. He's definitely signing it

Later today.

[mvd]

15. I have a question about them

I think they will probably come in January.

But I and my mom changed our bank account. I assume the IRS website will be updated to allow for the changed info? Social Security might inform them about my mom, but not me.

[Jersey Devil]

18. You can bet it will be just before the Georgia runoff election

If it wasn't for the runoff people would get nothing. It's the only reason the Repubs will pass it in the Senate.

[JI7]

23. Vile scum McConnell needs to die

[Bucky]

27. I'm steadily employed. I didn't need the 1200, I don't need the 600

Why in the hell can't they just target these things to people in need? I ended up giving almost my entire stimulus to friends in need and charities. I think I may have gotten a couple of extra sushi dinners out of it.

I expect to do the same now. We've got this looming eviction crisis in less than 2 weeks and they're handing out chump change to the middle class? This is all so fucked. Where the hell are our priorities?

[mvd]

28. What are your ideas?

There are a ton of people struggling and this is a quick way to get help out. It already is targeted to those with less than $70,000 income.

I can’t work and my mom lives on Social Security. How does the money get to us? We are in need a lot.

I think the outrage here is the stupid “three martini lunch” tax break and the fact there needs to be MORE help for regular people.

[Bucky]

33. What you suggest is perfect.

They should increase unemployment checks or increase food assistance. They should have done a national eviction moratorium and provide assistance to landlords who depend on the income on a needs-assessment basis.

But to just throw allow me $600 into the cloud and hope that some of it lands on someone who needs it, much like how Trump threw paper towels into a crowd of hurricane victims, is inefficient and lunkheaded.

Giving a pittance of aid to people who don't need it while ignoring the massive needs of people who are at risk of losing their homes or going hungry is just insane

[mvd]

36. I suggest giving out the checks as part of it. Bigger checks of course preferred

The big corporations ate up much of the paycheck protection program and people who need money got crumbs. Happens way too much. The checks should be part of aid at many levels. The debt or having some people who don’t need it get some isn’t a big concern in a crisis IMO.

[Polybius]

29. I'll take it!

[Johnny2X2X]

31. It should have been only for those in need

I'd rather have seen the means testing be down to $45K a year and boost the payments to $2000. And i think the unemployment aid is the most important part of this. PUA being extended means that UE bartenders, self employed people, and a lot of restaurant workers who wouldn't qualify in their state get a minimum of $460 a week for 11 more weeks. These are the people in need the most.

So my wife and I who make a combined $130K a year are going to get $1200, it's fine, but we do not need it. Neither of us has been off work, we're doing fine, it's just a giveaway to us where as people who are behind on bills, who have not been working are getting barely enough help.

[Bucky]

34. Yes.

I have a lot of friends who work in service industry. They are hurting. Like everything else coming out of the Trump administration, this is poorly designed, unplanned, pitifully mismanaged, and ignorant of the real needs in the country

[mvd]

38. The $2000 is a good starting point

But maybe just start phasing it out after $50,000 or so. In this crisis, it’s not just the low income who could need more help. It can add to the too low amount of $300 unemployment for middle clsss people out of work.

[TheFarseer]

35. +1

My income has been unaffected by the pandemic. I’m just going to put mine in my kid’s college fund.

[SMC22307]

49. Same. This weekend neighbors and I went grocery shopping and raided our pantries...

to donate to a local food bank. I made the donation today and on my way home drove past lovely older homes in a country club neighborhood being torn down to build massive new homes. This country is VERY out of whack. I don't know what the nuts and bolts would be but this money needs to go to those truly in need: unemployed, working poor, those facing eviction, low-income seniors, etc.

[JuJuYoshida]

37. for most, $600 ain't gonna do shit

[melman]

45. I heard someone say that's a "significant" amount

Which is odd because it kind of seems like it's not.

[LanternWaste]

50. So you heard stuff...

and things don't seem to you as said.

That's some insight right there.

Which is not odd... or doesn't seem odd.

[USALiberal]

51. Correct your quote! Nt

[melman]

52. lol

lol

[George II]

56. Interesting how people can comment on, and criticize the bill hours before the negotiations ended...

....and hours before the bill passed.

I heard that everyone is going to get a candy cane at the end of the week, a box of chocolates on Valentine's Day, colored eggs on Easter and a flag on Memorial Day.

[Dem4Life1102]

58. No pony?

[George II]

55. It's not the best deal (and we don't know everything in the bill), but most legislators....

....consider it a temporary fix. Many are thinking that in January the climate will be fresher for coming up with REAL long-term help.

Don't forget, republicans have been cowering in face of trump recrimination. That comes to an end in four weeks.

Also in the bill is a temporary extension of the eviction ban and an extension of unemployment compensation.