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Thousands of foreign workers are mistakenly getting stimulus checks from the IRS, new report says

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One tax expert says the mistake was likely prompted by the wrong tax forms being used by temporary workers.Thousands of foreign workers are getting stimulus checks due to a software glitch that sent money overseas,College-aged workers are getting the $1,200 checks in their accounts, the outlet reported. Some have either decided to keep the money, spend it, or try to return it, as the Internal Revenue Service has not offered guidance on this scenario.

"We were contacted by a lot of our clients all of a sudden, on the one day when they started hitting their accounts or that the checks started going out, asking what to do," Kepley told Politico. "And so we had to try to figure out how to return it, which is not easy."

 

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And yet I haven’t gotten mine, shouldn’t have fired the guy that was gonna oversee the stimulus money.

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