jbkl
Let us know how it went.
Christin K
Some of them, yes. People living on disability or social security. People who use the Earned Income Credit to reduce their tax liability. People who make less than $75K a year, no matter how much in tax they paid--even zero.
If you want to know if you're eligible, go to the IRS website: www.irs.gov. There is a way to file for the check if you ARE eligible, and have not filed a tax return for the past 2 years.
Amy
The purpose of the check is to make people spend money again so that companies can stay in business. What they're trying to "stimulate" is the economy.
Giving $1200 to rich people accomplishes nothing - they don't even notice it, and certainly don't spend more than they were already going to. But if you give $1200 to people who have nothing, they spend it on things they were struggling to get by without.
It is not a tax refund or anything else the recipient might "deserve" by paying taxes. It's not about the recipient at all.
Anonymous
As long as you file a tax return, aren't declared by someone else as a dependent, in general yes.
rustbucket
Children that don't file their parents get a check for them that seems fair.