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Track Your Stimulus Payment With This Tool (If You're Patient) Track Your Stimulus Payment With This Tool (If You're Patient)
Track Your Stimulus Payment With This Tool (If You're Patient) The IRS doesn’t want you calling to ask about your second stimulus payment, so the agency has created a “Get My Payment" tool. But here's the thing: There's a wait. The online aid is designed to let eligible taxpayers know whether or not your second stimulus payment is on the way. It also tells you whether your first payment was directly deposited or mailed in a check or debit card in advance of the official Jan. 4 (Monday) payment date. GO TO: Get My Payment (IRS) There's a catch, though: It might take you awhile to get in. Also, keep in mind: The IRS said the data is updated once daily…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Business
Don't Toss That Envelope From Omaha -- It Has Your Federal Stimulus Prepaid Debit Card Don't Toss That Envelope From Omaha -- It Has Your Federal Stimulus Prepaid Debit Card
Don't Toss That Envelope From Omaha -- It Has Your Federal Stimulus Prepaid Debit Card If a plain white envelope from Omaha, Nebraska arrives in the mail, don’t throw it away. It may be your federal stimulus payment. Last week, the IRS and U.S. Treasury Department began mailing Economic Impact Payments as prepaid debit cards. In addition to a P.O. Box in Omaha, the return address says the letter is from "Money Network Cardholder Services." Nearly 4 million Americans waiting for their slice of the $2.2 trillion CARES Act are expected to get their stimulus money in the form of an EIP Card, as opposed to a paper check signed by President Donald J. Trump. The trouble is, th…

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by Jon Craig
Police & Fire
Elmwood Park Woman Charged In Superstorm Sandy Scam Elmwood Park Woman Charged In Superstorm Sandy Scam
Elmwood Park Woman Charged In Superstorm Sandy Scam An Elmwood Park woman is facing four years in state prison after she collected $53,800 in fraudulent insurance claims for purported losses following Superstorm Sandy and filing false bankruptcy application, authorities said. Katreecea Cline, 49 of Elmwood Park, pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree insurance fraud and one count of second-degree fraud by insolvency in a hearing before Superior Court Judge James J. Guida in Bergen County, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced.  Cline admitted she submitted fake and altered receipts to her insurance company supporting claims alle…

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by Cecilia Levine