The now infamous tax rebate checks that everyone has been talking about were originally scheduled to start going out on May 2nd, but the Treasury Department has instead decided to now start the distribution this coming Monday. 800,000 checks per day will go out on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Nothing will go out on Thursday, but another 5 million will go out on Friday. This is almost a full five days earlier than originally planned.

Apparently the payments are going out sooner than expected because of some newer computer program that updates records daily instead of weekly like the older one did. I find it a little odd that this is supposedly the case, especially since I think they would have known about this well before today. Whatever the case though, I can’t really complain about the payments being made sooner than expected.

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