By now the economic stimulus rebate checks are old news, and many if not most people have already gotten theirs. I, on the other hand, have been waiting for our check to arrive in the mail. For the 2007 tax year we actually owed money instead of getting a refund so we weren’t going to get the rebate via direct deposit, and we have to wait on a paper check.
According to the IRS’s schedule, which is based on social security numbers, we are supposed to get our check by June 6th. Well, today we finally got something in the mail from the IRS that had Stimulus written on the back flap. I was excited to finally be able to cash the check and put it to use, but to my surprise, what I got from the IRS still wasn’t a check.
It was simply another correspondence saying that we’re entitled to $1200 and that we should get the check by June 6th. I don’t understand why they took the time and spent the money to send me this on June 2nd. They should have just sent the check. So we’ll continue to wait for our stimulus check to arrive and hope that it eventually gets here.

by Caroline, on June 3 2008 @ 10:25 am
I am glad to hear that I wasn’t the only target for this inane piece of pulp from the IRS. The only difference is that mine didn’t have a date or amount that would come. I am so glad to see that the government is ignoring the public’s outcry for a smaller human footprint…
by fiscalmusings, on June 3 2008 @ 11:54 am
Yeah, you’re not the only one. It was completely useless.