The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (Cares) Act, signed into law March 27, made cash rebates — technically, an advanced 2020 tax credit — available to 150 million Americans.Individuals making $75,000 or less and couples earning up to twice that are eligible to receive $1,200. There’s an extra $500 for each dependent child under…
The bulk of the challenges have occurred with three initiatives designed to get cash to struggling Americans: $1,200 per adult relief payments that launched this week, $349 billion in Small Business Administration loans, and $260 billion in unemployment benefits for the more than 22 million people — and growing — out of work.The SBA ran…
Get the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., says he is concerned that reports of coronavirus stimulus checks being sent to dead people are just the "tip of the iceberg" of waste coming from the massive $2.2 trillion package that Congress passed and President Trump…
CLOSEAmericans are confused about what happened to the stimulus check deposits that were supposed to show up in their bank accounts on Wednesday.The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service launched the "Get My Payment" web application allowing people to track their payout, which was hit with early glitches at the time of launch.Around 80 million people were to…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…