No, This Is Not a Phone Number for Tracking Your Coronavirus Stimulus Payments







The IRS has not announced if Americans will be able to track the status of their stimulus payments as they do federal income tax refunds.







































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['An 800 phone number can be used for tracking the status of coronavirus economic stimulus payments.', 'Some April Fools’ Day jokes outlive their marginal and ephemeral usefulness and continue to be spread as valid bits of information long after April 1 has come and passed. One example of such occurred in 2020, when a jape about a toll-free phone number that could be used for tracking the status of $1,200 economic stimulus payments being sent to U.S. taxpayers continued to circulate via social media:', '', 'The federal government has not yet announced an automated system for tracking stimulus payments. Persons who call the number shown above may end up “stimulated,” but not in an economic sense — it connects callers with a phone sex line.', 'The IRS reportedly will start issuing stimulus payments via direct deposit beginning on April 9. Taxpayers who receive paper checks (because the IRS does not have their bank account information on file) may be receiving their payments anywhere between April 24 and September 11, depending upon their adjusted gross income.', 'Mengle, Rocky. \xa0 “When Will I Get My Stimulus Check?.”\n\xa0 \xa0 Kiplinger \xa0 3 April 2020.', 'Rumors about antifa plotting violence have coincided with the month of July and Gettysburg before.', 'A complete story is rarely told in a headline.', 'Social media rumors that two memorials in New York were vandalized proved misleading.', 'In August 2019, a 23-year-old unarmed Black man died after an encounter with police officers in Aurora, Colorado.', 'A chaotic scene in St. Louis sparked outrage, memes, and confusion.', 'Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested on sex abuse charges connected to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.', 'The white supremacist group made frequent use of the slogan more recently embraced by President Donald Trump, though they did not, as some claim, invent it.', "The question of past arrests often surfaces among people who want to rationalize police officers' actions when Black men are killed in custody.", 'You can claim anything if you remove the barrier of evidence.', 'Rumors about antifa plotting violence have coincided with the month of July and Gettysburg before.', '© 1995 - 2020 by Snopes Media Group Inc.', 'This material may not be reproduced without permission.', 'Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com']
No, This Is Not a Phone Number for Tracking Your Coronavirus Stimulus Payments