Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin talks with President Donald J. Trump and members of the coronavirus job force throughout a rundown in action to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, April 02, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Image by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Americans usually are needed to file an income tax return in order to receive their cash, which the IRS started issuing over the previous numerous days. The IRS uses that info to determine the eligibility for and the size of the payments, which can amount to $1,200 per individual and $2,400 per wed couple.
But numerous veterans and their survivors who rely solely on federal government benefits, such as disability payments from Veterans Affairs, do not typically have to send a tax return.
The Internal Revenue Service and Treasury are waiving the filing requirement. Veterans and their recipients who get Compensation and Pension benefit payments will get the stimulus payments automatically and without extra documents, according to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
” Economic Effect Payments will be provided instantly to our Veterans and their households who did not file tax returns for 2018 or 2019,” Mnuchin said in an announcement on Friday.
” The Treasury, IRS and [U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs] are working hard to guarantee our nation’s heroes receive these payments rapidly and without any extra action or documents,” he stated.
