WASHINGTON - Claims about new stimulus checks, IRS direct deposits, relief payments and tariff dividends spread throughout 2025 — and they’re still circulating in 2026. But is there any truth to them?

If you want your $1,200 federal government stimulus payment deposited directly into your checking account, noon Wednesday is the deadline to provide that information to the Internal Revenue Service.

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Americans who receive money from the federal government may soon notice a shift in how those payments are delivered. The IRS is moving many federal disbursements away from paper checks and toward ...

Taxpayers aren’t expected to see any new stimulus checks of any kind this spring. The last federal economic impact payments were issued in 2021, and Congress hasn’t approved any new legislation to ...

The last round of federal economic‑impact payments went out in 2021, and any new checks would require Congress to pass fresh legislation. In 2024, the IRS sent automatic payments to eligible taxpayers ...