Coronavirus (NO POLITICAL OR SOCIAL COMMENTARY PLEASE)

[Lee A Stewart]

New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority has reached an agreement with the Transport Workers Union of America and Transport Workers Union Local 100 to pay $500,000 to the families of union workers who died after becoming infected by the novel coronavirus, the union said Tuesday.

Let the law suits begin!

[neoz]

My local WM also has been doing the let x amount in when x amount leave. I didn't have to wait to long in lone a week ago which was nice. And stuff seemed to be better supplied. TP and cleaning stuff was still hit or miss.

[Batman1980]

[Britbuffguy]

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

Let the law suits begin!

Oh, there will be plenty of lawsuits going around. I know here in Wisconsin, there's been a few after last week's insanity, and if anyone should die from that stuff, more and more will be filled.

It's kind of why I'm puzzled that so many people want the economy to open right back up so fast....businesses will just be opening themselves to more and more lawsuits. And I'd think it's gonna be slam dunk cases.

[Britbuffguy]

Originally Posted by Batman1980

Yup, how many billions in sales are being lost right now and crushing the global economy because so many businesses are shuttered in fear of the virus? May 1st is probably too soon for most places but I can't see it being past June for at least some restrictions being lifted. Wait too long and this depression will be much longer than it needs to be. Not to mention the damage this is doing worldwide to the education of our youth and some of our college students.

You open everything back up again too early, its gonna make things even worse.

I think your comment is why America is gonna get way worse over the summer. Too many people thinking about $$$$$$$$$$$, less about our collective safety and people's lives.

[Josep5349]

Originally Posted by Britbuffguy

You open everything back up again too early, its gonna make things even worse.

I think your comment is why America is gonna get way worse over the summer. Too many people thinking about $$$$$$$$$$$, less about our collective safety and people's lives.

Putting aside the politics and more in the context of the health implications, the images coming out of Michigan, being broadcast to the entire world are alarming.

[voltz]

Originally Posted by IndyMLVC

$1200 just hit my bank account

Do we still have to pay that back?

[Ben_C]

Meanwhile in the UK, our new national sport has become watching 99 year old Captain Tom walking lengths of his large garden to drum up much needed cash for our health service.

He finished his 100th length this morning and, in keeping with the bizarre times in which we are currently living, he was then promptly serenaded with a rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone by Michael Ball live on the news.

[Josep5349]

Originally Posted by Ben_C

Meanwhile in the UK, our new national sport has become watching 99 year old Captain Tom walking lengths of his large garden to drum up much needed cash for our health service.

He finished his 100th length this morning and, in keeping with the bizarre times in which we are currently living, he was then promptly serenaded with a rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone by Michael Ball live on the news.

Raising £12 million for the National Health Service.

[bipbop13]

Originally Posted by voltz

Do we still have to pay that back?

no.

[ctujackbauer]

Depressing coronavirus news of the day:

CNN - Tip leads police to 17 bodies at a New Jersey nursing home

[ctujackbauer]

Well, guess I'm getting a check in 8 weeks with Trump's name on it (that part I don't actually mind, kinda funny imo).

Apparently anyone who gets technical error 109 was someone who was a zero filer (reddit link) (2018 and 2019 taxes filed but with no refund nor no tax owed) and the system doesn't know how to process it for direct deposit.


I'm sure this is comeuppance for posting Tiger King coronavirus memes.

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by voltz

Do we still have to pay that back?

No. It's a gift from the government, non-taxable. It is not classified as income.

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by ctujackbauer

Well, guess I'm getting a check in 8 weeks with Trump's name on it (that part I don't actually mind, kinda funny imo).

Apparently anyone who gets technical error 109 was someone who was a zero filer (reddit link) (2018 and 2019 taxes filed but with no refund nor no tax owed) and the system doesn't know how to process it for direct deposit.


I'm sure this is comeuppance for posting Tiger King coronavirus memes.

You can add your direct deposit info which will shorten your timeframe:

https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus-tax-...mpact-payments

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by Josep5349

Putting aside the politics and more in the context of the health implications, the images coming out of Michigan, being broadcast to the entire world are alarming.

Michigan is #4 for total cases and #3 for total deaths. So the governor had to do something to flatten the curve. But whoever wrote the new mandates did a terrible job of describing them so the populace has misinterpreted them thinking they are worse then they really are. Stuck inside for weeks, the "pot boiled over."

[ctujackbauer]

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

You can add your direct deposit info which will shorten your timeframe:

https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus-tax-...mpact-payments

When I submitted the direct deposit info along with the 2019 tax return information it throws that 109 error and doesn't let me continue, stops, and doesn't let me do anything else.

I'll wait until the reddit people with the same situation start having success. Some resubmitted the form 7 times and then got locked out...

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by ctujackbauer

When I submitted the direct deposit info along with the 2019 tax return information it throws that 109 error and doesn't let me continue, stops, and doesn't let me do anything else.

I'll wait until the reddit people with the same situation start having success. Some resubmitted the form 7 times and then got locked out...

AFAIK, Today was the first day it went operational. There have definitely been some issues:

IRS's coronavirus stimulus check-tracking tool is not working for many

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/pers...cid=spartandhp


Stimulus checks are going out to people who have died.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/pers...cid=spartandhp

[mar3o]

Things seem very confrontational in here tonight. Like arguing just for the sake of it. I love how some in here think they have all the answers and nobody's else's opinions count.

[voltz]

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

No. It's a gift from the government, non-taxable. It is not classified as income.

Well thank god for that!

I remember reading that the first draft was supposed to be a loan of sorts.... I was going all "WTF, crisis mode going all over the world and you still expect us to owe you?!??"

Someone was telling me the actual checks that get sent out have Donald Trump's signature on them, which strikes me as strange considering you always have the guy in charge of the treasury signing them.

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

Stimulus checks are going out to people who have died.

Lot of good that did.

[IndyMLVC]

Originally Posted by voltz

Well thank god for that!

I remember reading that the first draft was supposed to be a loan of sorts.... I was going all "WTF, crisis mode going all over the world and you still expect us to owe you?

It is an advance against your 2020 tax return. We'll all have to pay it back next year.