Posted on 12/03/2020 6:03:27 PM PST by 11th_VA
Now we’re learning that the Internal Revenue Service also sent checks to an untold number of random European citizens, not Americans, who aren’t even US residents.
“The IRS now acknowledges that its own error caused some citizens of other countries to mistakenly receive $1,200 coronavirus relief payments — and that the mistake is likely to happen again if more stimulus money goes out,” NPR reports.
For example, Stockholm resident and Swedish citizen Susanne Wigforss received a check from the IRS.
"This is so wrong," Wigforss told NPR, "because I saw that a number of people were being evicted every month in Chicago, for instance, and I thought one of those families would have needed this stimulus check. Why should a Swedish citizen living abroad receive $1,200?"
"There's no way I'm going to cash this money — it doesn't belong to me," she added. "But how much money is bleeding out from the Treasury Department because of these [misdirected] stimulus checks, I wonder?"
... Why did these mistakes happen? It’s unclear the precise reason beyond general incompetence, but it appears that many of the mistaken recipients had at some point paid into Social Security while working in the US, despite not being citizens and no longer being residents...
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That’s so they would vote for Biden.
At least somebody has some ethics left.
Does the government do anything well?
Government does a great job of “lacking candor.”
Depends on your concept of ‘well’
But, considering that you frequent this forum and you asked the question:
No.
“There’s no way I’m going to cash this money — it doesn’t belong to me,”
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Bravo for her, how many Americans would do the same I wonder?
How is it that foreign addresses and names are in the IRS computer files?
Taxpaying honest citizen here.
STILL waiting for mine. Site says I’m eligible. They will let me know when they get around to me.
Gee, thanks IRS.
Love how you just kind of lollygag mine while you send money to dead people and foreigners.
And half the country wants to have the government running MORE things.
It’s widely reported that lot of foreigners with SSNs or ITINs received the checks.
Kudos to her for her honesty.
But seriously, how hard is it for the IRS to put a hold on payments going overseas until they can be reviewed?
It’s bad enough that it happened once, for them to just shrug and say it’s likely to happen again should cause heads to roll.
How many of those people are listed as having voted?
In California millions in unemployment were sent to state inmates
Ask Lois Lerner why they got them.
Myself and my Army buddy that married Asians still have not gotten our 2019 relief. IRS said would be part of our 2020 tax return. In other words F U service men.
Sent them all ballots too?
Is this Babylon Bee? A joke. Nothing could be this screwed up.
Swedes are some of the most ethical people I have known.
I know this first hand, I was married to one for 25 years.
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