I like that it's easy to use, and you don't need to enter in 3585985 lines of information.

I got mine deposited this morning, WOOHOO! Time to go.....uhh....pay some bills.

Woo.

Damn, mine's coming a week later than it was supposed to before their miraculous computer upgrade. Oh, well.

I got mine Direct deposited in my bank the Saturday before the advanced release Monday. Then just the other day I received a mailer from the IRS explaining why I received what I received.

Honestly, I won't believe mine exists until I see it. I've been screwed around by the IRS too much over the years.

Interesting - they debited my account for the payment that I owed them, but they are mailing me my check for the stimulus payment.

AARGH! We messed up on the bank routing number this year and they sent our refund snail mail, so now we are looking at July 4 for a paper check.

They don't have my information. Interesting, they were happy to cash my check.

Mine isn't in yet but I expect it to arrive soon. And it will go to pay down bills.

I wonder if it would have been easier for everyone if we all just borrowed the money directly from a bank. The gummint doesn't actually have any *real* money to use.

Typical IRS. I owed them money and they swiped it direct from my bank. According to their "schedule" they should have direct deposited over a week ago. Their handy-dandy little calculator doesn't have any information so I'm guessing the morons are going to the expense of printing a check.

Couldn't organize getting drunk at a brewery...

Yay! It says I'm getting one, and it'll arrive on Friday. Which is nice. Beloved got hers direct deposited last Saturday. Which was nice as well.

We're converting ours directly into Euros. :-P

@theirishscion: About, um, 7 Euros, last time I checked. <sigh>

@daqman: Same here. I did enter the information for the direct deposit option, but this site says the same thing for me: that they don't have any of my information.

Cool post. Thanks Consumerist.

Doesn't seem to have any information for me as well. I ended up owing this year due to a glitch in payroll at my company. Anybody who had to pay the IRS show any information?

Just got mine yesterday! Yay

@rndmideas: I owed a bit of money (not much) too. That seems to be the common link so far. And yes, they promptly grabbed my payment from my bank account.

I got mine yesterday by direct deposit, now I'm just waiting to see if I get a letter explaining why it wasn't the amount it should have been.

I get the following....
"We are sorry. Specific information about your Stimulus payment is not available."
Thanks, Uncle Sam! 'preciate it.
I HAVE heard that if you had a fee taken out of your refund (H&R Block for me), then you will get it mailed. What a load of crap. I guess I should check back a week before it should be mailed?

I got mine Saturday (2 days before this tool says I should have gotten it) and promptly sent it to my cc. How stimulating!

Also no info, I didn't owe money this year, although still owe a little from last year :D. I also had a fee taken from my refund for my tax preparation service.

@graphicwave: I got that too, until I changed my exemption number.

They don't have my info yet.

this whole thing is a joke.

This is a major fuck up! I am a 22-year-old college student who works in the summer. My parents claim me as a dependent because I do not make enough money to qualify as an independent household. However, since I'm over 18 and they claim me as a dependent neither my parents nor I get the stimulus money.
I wonder how many other "semi-independent" young people are not getting anything.

Waiting for the other shoe to drop...

@wolny: That does blow... Sorry

Now, here's the best part that many have overlooked. Apparently, if the household income after all deductions and allowances was low enough to be free of the income tax burden, the household would receive $300 per dependent including the head of the household. Which basically means that low-income families or self-employed people who do not make much money get screwed over again by getting only the half that everyone else is getting. Republican economics makes no sense: they don't give free money to the people who are the most likely to spend it!
I love the U.S.A.!

I got mine today by direct deposit, too. What a lovely morning treat!

@wolny: I'm in the same situation. As a 19 year old college student I only worked during the summer last year. Now I actually live alone, in another state away from my parents, but yet I'm still a "dependent" of my parents but I live in an entirely different state on my own. I guess I'm one of those "semi-independent" people.

@graphicwave: This is what mine said, and I'm kinda worried... I was suppose to be in the first direct deposit group on the 2nd.

TANKS JOSH!!!!! I'm getting mine tomorrow!!!! yay! :D

Just got mine today, Direct Deposit. Time to pay down some bills... I mean uh... buy random crap from stores... yeah, that's it... yeah.

i'm getting $300 less than i expected! boo!

@ChChChacos: Well, technically, I attend college in a different state and I even rent an apartment. At the same time, retain my "original" state of residence for some benefits to my parents while I work and pay taxes in the state where I go to school.
In situations like these, I get jealous of Europe where they have a huge all-European Student Union that makes sure that students get equal benefits as independent adults.

@wolny: exactly. i'm pissed, but oh well.

My wife and I owe quite a bit of money to the IRS for last year and we keep getting different answers. Are we getting this money or is the IRS taking it and applying it to what we owe? Majority of people tell me they'll be applying it to what we owe but I haven't gotten a definitive answer. Anyone know?

@wring: I'll try to pull a couple of journalistic strings over the next couple of days. Someone must pick up such a story. =)

@wolny: what a clusterfuck this will turn out to be. i hope it gets the job done of turning more people against republicans.

Looks like I'm getting mine on Friday. It will be going to a vacation I planned pre-rebate...in Mexico. But because I'm using it for discretionary items in Mexico, I'm still fueling the US indirectly, right? Because it's a global economy? I'm guessing that's not what Bush had in mind.

Score! $1500 SMACKEROOOS next week. I wish I could go on vacation like AbsoluteIrrelevance but sadly due to the new addition to the family - it will be savings time for me...

@wolny: THAT is exactly why it's a joke.

@wring: it's not the democrats or republicans, you got it all wrong, it's the government as a whole people should be wary of.

People these days have forgotten that it's their DUTY to question the government, instead, everyone has a "herd mentality" and accepts everything they are fed.

If you owed taxes this year and paid by direct debit, most likely you will be getting a paper check. :/ Turns out even though they have your bank routing number, they will not use it for direct deposit.

Also, if you go to their "Where's my Stimulus Check?" website, the stupid thing will tell you you're entering the wrong information. But, if you look further, actually, it's because it won't actually have the information until your check has been scheduled, which is about a week before the date on the table. So, that website will be useless until about a week before that date. Useless... that is just not surprising.

@zentex: Unfortunately, republicans are the reason for the fuck up. Democrats wanted a bit too much, but the donkeys cut it down shafting the poorest population. That's the worst wolf in a sheep's clothing I have seen.

Okay -- so who knows for sure that this Where's my Stimulus Check - is a real IRS site?! I was on the stimulus page at irs.gov and can't find a link to this page at all -- the menu is different, as well as the URL. The actual IRS site says to call with questions and has a chart as to when the check will be "transmitted". I would be VERY CAUTIOUS about putting your ssn# in here. It could be an insanely easy way to get your identity.... and to see when the check arrives you should only have to enter the last 2 numbers (that is what it is based on) There should be no reason to enter all the numbers!! Please beware -- and if you have already entered your number here you may want to call the IRS to see if this is legit -- or call and put a block on your credit reports (I think you can do for $5 at each reporting agency) so no one can open a new account under your name/identity. Ahh!! Never enter your SSN online!!!

@zentex: sorry to hear you're not getting anything.

Didn't owe and they don't have my info yet I know I filed and got a return. You're right - won't believe it till I see it!

Supposed to get mine by th 9th according to their little calendar

$600 buck a roos being deposited into my bank friday!! It will be going straight into the credit card!! Then I'll start charging again!! LMAO

@trillium

Yeah, I'm supposed to get mine by the 9th, too.

I WANT MY PS3,DAMNNIT!

Looks like because I used H&R (I didn't want to) I have to wait for the mail. Although I didn't get a "Rapid Refund" they still had their routing and account number on my return and gave me the money a couple weeks later.

Mine got deposited lat Friday, dated for the subsequent Monday.

After speaking with the IRS over the phone, they state the website is incorrect.

1. You can receive your check on the week (mon - fri) of the date on the schedule, based on the last two digits of your SSN.

2. Even if you filed online, and had fees withdrawn, you have a 50% chance of getting a deposit ... why?

The IRS may have your valid bank information from previous years tax returns. YEARS as in 2007 filings and before!

The way I was explained to, was that they will start with this year's tax return. If it does not contain valid bank information (Aka SBBT, etc), they will go back a year and try that account.

They will continue this until they run out of account information OR one finally deposits.

If NONE deposits, then they will cut a check on that day and mail it on that day to you. You will not have to wait until the scheduled paper check mailing schedule.

Also, the deposit tries take a few minutes at the most. Therefore, in a worse case scenario, you will have your paper check mailed out on the day it should of been deposited.

This is how the IRS personnel explained it to me ...

I'll be excited to see any stimulus at all, but I highly doubt the efficiency of this process and the ability of the government to realize that they owe me $600.
I expect to be on the phone with them for half of June and July. If I don't come back, call the police.

I went to the website, put in my digits, and it said that it should be deposited in my bank TODAY.

I popped over to my bank's website and sure enough, there it is under "pending transactions". Sweet! Now to go buy me a gallon of gasoline! :-)

Sigh we're supposed to get ours by May 9th but so far nothing. This fails

@Willow01: Same for me as well.

@S-the-K: "Sweet! Now to go buy me a gallon of gasoline! :-)"

LMFAO! How true.

"The way I was explained to, was that they will start with this year's tax return. If it does not contain valid bank information (Aka SBBT, etc), they will go back a year and try that account."

Great. The past three years I've used Turbo Tax for my filing and before that the accounts I've had are closed and no longer open.

I checked my status online and got bunk information. I called the 800 number but could not speak with a live person. The recording acted like I won't get my check until June.

FUCK YOU IRS!

mine was supposed to be deposited NLT 2 May...nothing yet, and no human to interact with when I called, so I emailed my Congressman...

and now we wait

"and now we wait"

I've done some searching on this while at work and I'm really mad at the whole situation. If you used H & R Block or a similar tax preparation service that allows you to get their fees deducted from your return, you will get a paper check.

Because the funds are first routed to SBB&T, then to your bank, the IRS doesn't have your account info. I'll likely get a paper check, in June, for what I was supposed to have gotten.

Fuck you, IRS - and Turbo Tax, too.

@wring: I am.

But the government gave all this hype that it was "$600 per person blah blah" and then put their hand over their mouth and said "up to" real quietly. The people rejoiced when it passed quickly, and then felt remorse when they saw the fine print.

"Let's get the public hyped up and then quietly say the gotcha! oh! and lets give more money to the people that don't really need it"

...I'm just sayin.