The Internal Revenue Service has launched a new online tool that lets you track when your stimulus payment should arrive.
The new Get My Payment tool allows many taxpayers to check when they can expect to receive their payment. In addition, the tool allows taxpayers to add direct deposit information, if it isn’t already on file with the IRS.
“Get My Payment will offer people a quick and easy way to find the status of their payment and, where possible, provide their bank account information if we don’t already have it,” IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig said in a statement.
Although some people are not eligible for the stimulus payments, for the many who are eligible, the checks can be as high as $1,200 per individual and $2,400 per married couple filing jointly. Parents can get an additional $500 per child under 17.
An initial round of 80 million stimulus payments is already hitting bank accounts via direct deposit this week. Paper checks, for those who lack bank accounts or who don’t have account information on file with the IRS, will start to go out in early May.