stimulus checks

About $18 million in stimulus payments went to people who were either dead or in prison, says a government auditor in a new report. If that isn't enough to make your tax-paying wallet implode, how's this: Los Angeles got $111 million in federal stimulus money and has only managed to create a...

Didn't get a stimulus check? Think you deserve more than you got? Got one but think it's taxable? Or do you have a very limited memory and have no earthly clue what a "recovery rebate credit" might be? (A credit for people who discovered their 2007 rebate checks in the bottom of their recycling...

If you didn't get a piece of the economic stimulus pie the first time around this year because you either made too much or too little, you might still be able to get in on it. To be eligible for a check in 2008, taxpayers had to have a minimum amount of earned income or Social Security retirement...

The Internal Revenue Service has about $266 million sitting around, waiting to be retrieved by you. The agency says that 279,000 economic stimulus checks never got to taxpayers ($163 million) and 104,000 tax refunds never made it there either ($103 million). The most common reason taxpayers don't...

One woman spent it on training her puppy. Another couple spent theirs fixing their car. One woman bought a fancy Dyson vacuum cleaner and commented, (I paraphrase here) "I hope it sucks as good and long as this president and administration has." Ouch. But, you know, a valid observation, nicely tied...