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What We’ve Learned Watching Uncle Sam Disburse $2T In Stimulus Payments

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Instead, said Edwards, they handed it off to the dual purviews of the IRS and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. “By By law, [payments] like these are set up around a checks and balances system so that the IRS authorizes the payments and the Bureau of Fiscal Service distributes them.

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GAO: $1.4B In Pandemic Stimulus Checks Went To Dead People

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billion went to dead people as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Treasury Department rushed to send out $269 billion in funds, according to a Thursday (June 25) U.S. The GAO noted that the IRS had access to the complete set of death records belonging to the Social Security Administration.

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