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COVID relief payments

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
May 19, 2021
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Hi,

We received a portion of the 1st covid relief payment, which I entered that amount into the program, but never received the 2nd payment that we should have gotten. Do I enter the amount we should have received and file a 3911 form to track that payments, or enter -0-?

DoninGA

Employee

If the second stimulus was never received just enter a 0 (zero) for the amount received.

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Opus 17

Employee

If the IRS thinks they sent a round 2 payment and you indicate zero, the IRS will "correct" your return and remove the credit. You will have to file a trace request to locate the second round payment. However, if the IRS never sent a round 2 payment, then you should indicate zero so you get it, that's how it works. Normally, you would get a letter 1444-B in the mail indicating the amount of round 2 payment that the IRS thinks they paid you.

See the IRS web site.

https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus/get-my-payment#first-second-payments

First and Second Payment Status

The first and second Economic Impact Payments no longer appear in Get My Payment.

To find the amounts of these payments, view or create your online account. You can also refer to Notice 1444 for the first payment and Notice 1444-B for the second payment. The IRS mailed these notices to your address of record.

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BL62Author

So I should enter the 2nd covid payment as received, even though it was not, and file 3911 to trace that payment, correct?

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Opus 17

Employee

@BL62 wrote:

So I should enter the 2nd covid payment as received, even though it was not, and file 3911 to trace that payment, correct?

If you have a 1444-B letter that says a payment was made, put the 1444-B amount into Turbotax. Then, if you never actually received the 1444-B money, you will need to run a trace.