{"id":1999278,"date":"2023-08-13T11:27:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T15:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irs-refused-to-pay-stimulus-checks-wrongly-claiming-some-taxpayers-were-dead-report\/"},"modified":"2023-08-13T11:30:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T15:30:16","slug":"irs-refused-to-pay-stimulus-checks-wrongly-claiming-some-taxpayers-were-dead-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irs-refused-to-pay-stimulus-checks-wrongly-claiming-some-taxpayers-were-dead-report\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS denies stimulus checks to some taxpayers, falsely declaring them deceased: Report."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firs-refused-to-pay-stimulus-checks-wrongly-claiming-some-taxpayers-were-dead-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1999278&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>An Audit Reveals \u200bIRS Mistakenly Withheld Stimulus Payments from Living Individuals<\/h2>\n<p>An audit of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has \u2062uncovered a shocking\u200b revelation: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irs-refused-to-pay-stimulus-checks-wrongly-claiming-some-taxpayers-were-dead-report\/\" title=\"IRS denies stimulus checks to some taxpayers, falsely declaring them deceased: Report.\">agency \u200bmistakenly withheld <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mnuchin-600-stimulus-payments-could-be-deposited-starting-tonight\/\" title=\"Mnuchin: 0 Stimulus Payments Could Be Deposited Starting Tonight\">stimulus payments<\/a><\/a> \u200dand checks from some living \u2062people, falsely claiming that they had already died.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Treasury&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-endorses-lisa-murkowskis-gop-challenger-kelly-tshibaka-for-2022\/\" title=\"Trump Endorses Lisa Murkowski\u2019s GOP Challenger Kelly Tshibaka For 2022\">inspector general office<\/a>, \u2063during \u2062the pandemic, taxpayers who attempted to receive stimulus checks were informed that their accounts\u2062 were locked because the IRS believed they were deceased.\u2064 This\u200c error resulted in tens of thousands of accounts being deadlocked, preventing taxpayers from receiving their stimulus payments and also blocking them from filing \u2064tax returns or obtaining\u2062 refunds.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the deceased account lock\u200c is designed to\u200d prevent the filing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-continued-threats-irs-warns-against-identity-theft-of-american-taxpayers\/\" title=\"IRS warns against identity theft of American taxpayers amidst ongoing threats.\">fraudulent tax returns<\/a>, when there \u200bis an error, the unintended consequence is that legitimate taxpayers \u200bcannot file a tax return and receive a \u2063refund,\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Treasury&#8217;s inspector general stated in a recent report. This error not only burdens taxpayers with resolving the issue but \u2062also increases the workload for the IRS as they\u200c receive\u2062 additional calls and correspondence from affected individuals.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/client-data-is-precious-commodity-irs-warns-tax-pros-5457606\">Client Data is \u2018Precious Commodity,\u2019 IRS Warns Tax Pros<\/a> &#8211; 8\/10\/2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/irs-lost-track-of-millions-of-sensitive-tax-records-watchdog-says-5457077\">IRS Lost Track of Millions of Sensitive \u2063Tax Records, Watchdog Says<\/a> &#8211; 8\/10\/2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The audit revealed that as of January 1, 2022, there\u2064 were 77,868 erroneously deadlocked accounts. At the\u2062 time of the report, the IRS had only unlocked 20,222 of these accounts, leaving the rest unresolved.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Management noted\u200c that taxpayer accounts were improperly locked because \u200cof both \u200dhuman and computer programming issues when identifying \u200bthe\u2062 appropriate taxpayer account to\u200d be\u200d locked,&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>the report stated. The IRS \u2064has made efforts to correct\u2063 the locked accounts, but 63 accounts remain unresolved. The remaining 57,646 accounts were deemed appropriate to remain locked due to reasons such as long periods without filing\u200c tax returns or\u200c failure to submit necessary \u200dinformation returns.<\/p>\n<p>Accounts can be locked due to the Social Security&#8217;s\u200b master death \u2063list or \u2062due to errors within the\u2062 IRS itself, as revealed by the audit.<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury&#8217;s inspector general made several recommendations, including\u200c the suggestion that the IRS should \u200dinform taxpayers that they\u200c can\u200b directly contact the agency to resolve\u2064 the death-lock issue, rather than going to the Social Security Administration. However, the IRS rejected this idea and emphasized that taxpayers should not hesitate to\u200d reach out to them for assistance.<\/p>\n<h2>Other Problems\u200b Uncovered<\/h2>\n<p>In\u2062 addition to\u2064 the stimulus payment issue, the same watchdog conducted another review that exposed the IRS&#8217;s negligence in handling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-warren-seeks-to-expand-irs-even-more-than-spending-bill-already-does\/\" title=\"Sen. Warren Seeks to Expand IRS Even More Than Spending Bill Already Does\">sensitive taxpayer information<\/a>. \u200dThe audit revealed that the IRS had lost\u200b track of thousands of microfilm cartridges\u2062 containing millions of sensitive business and individual\u200c tax \u2062records.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063report, issued by \u200dthe Treasury&#8217;s inspector general, criticized the IRS for \u2062its failure to comply with records management requirements and\u200b highlighted significant deficiencies in the agency&#8217;s safeguarding, \u200cstorage, and accounting of sensitive taxpayer information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An audit of the IRS reveals that stimulus payments were not sent to certain living individuals as the agency mistakenly believed they had passed away. Amid the pandemic, taxpayers seeking stimulus checks were informed by the Treasury&#8217;s inspector general office that their accounts were locked due to this error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1999279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}