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3/23/2021

Treasury and IRS Disbursing More Economic Impact Payments in Coming Days and Weeks | U.S. Department of the Tr…

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Treasury and IRS Disbursing More Economic Impact Payments
in Coming Days and Weeks
March 22, 2021

WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Internal Revenue Service,
and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service announced that the next batch of Economic Impact
Payments will be issued to taxpayers this week, with many of these coming by paper check
or prepaid debit card.
For taxpayers receiving direct deposit, this batch of payments began processing on Friday
and will have an o icial pay date of Wednesday, March 24, with some people seeing these in
their accounts earlier, potentially as provisional or pending deposits. A large number of this
latest batch of payments will also be mailed, so taxpayers who do not receive a direct
deposit by March 24 should watch the mail carefully in the coming weeks for a paper check
or a prepaid debit card, known as an Economic Impact Payment Card, or EIP Card.
No action is needed by most people to obtain this round of Economic Impact Payments
(EIPs). People can check the Get My Payment tool on IRS.gov on to see if the their payment
has been scheduled.
Today marks the second batch of payments, with additional payments anticipated on a
weekly basis going forward. The vast majority of taxpayers receiving EIPs will receive it by
direct deposit. In addition, the IRS and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service leveraged data in
their systems to convert many payments to direct deposits that otherwise would have been
sent as paper checks or debit cards. This accelerated the disbursement of these payments by
weeks.
Additional information on this batch of payments – along with photos of the paper check
and debit card and an updated Fact Sheet of Frequently Asked Questions – was also
released today by the IRS and is available on IRS.gov.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0072

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