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The IRS Sent Coronavirus Relief Payments To Dead People

The IRS has delivered more than $207 billion in Coronavirus relief payments to individual taxpayers, but some of the recipients of the relief checks are the bank accounts of people who have died.
A letter bearing the signature of President Trump was sent to people who received a coronavirus relief payment as part of the Cares Act. Some of those payments went to the bank accounts of dead people.

The IRS has paid out more than $207 billion in Coronavirus relief payments to individual taxpayers, as part of the $2 trillion package passed by Congress known as the CARES Act.

And among the recipients of those $1,200 payments are the bank accounts of dead individuals — a problem that could impact millions of American families.

Bob L'Hommedieu's father passed away in December after a long battle

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