Americans are getting $1200 each

Aren't Canadians getting a check for 4 months? I'm jealous of them.

Any American making more than $75,000 per annum is getting nothing.

I'm getting nothing because I make $200K. Thanks for nothing Trump!

Not true, R2. Look it up.

But there is an income limit.

It's actually a valid point.

Why isn't the British government handing out financial aid?

Isn't the UK paying everyone's salary (or 80%) for some time?

No wonder Meghan Markle was in such a hurry to get back to the U.S.

Get that cash, girl!

I’m getting nothing because I make just over $100k. And I am OK with it. But poor people will need a hell of a lot more than a one-time $1,200 check to survive this. This country is evil.

All I keep hearing is that people who make between $75,000 and $99,000 will get "a smaller amount" than the $1,200 but no one is ever specific about what that amount will be. Guess we'll find out soon enough.

R9: $5 less for every $100 over $75,000: so, frinstance, if one made $80,000, five grand over the limit, you see it drop by $250 for a total stimulus of $950

Unless Ms Markle had US income in 2018 or 2019 and still filed a return, OP, she gets bupkis.

If she files a 2019 return saying that she either owed no taxes or made less that $99,000 and paid the taxes on it, she gets something.

People who make $75,000K or more are likely to be white collared workers, and thus have the privilege of working from home. So their salary is not impacted. And they're saving on gas or public transportation fees. If they have kids, they're saving money on child care because they're working from home. So they might not get as big a check, but they're profiting off this.

People with lower salaries aren't as likely to be able to work from home. If they're working normal hours, then they have a higher chance of exposure to the virus, and they're getting to the grocery store after all the "home workers" have already cleared it out. And, if they have kids whose school is closed, these people now have higher child care expenses. Then there are those who have been furloughed.

Still, I see so many people on the NextDoor app bragging, "Yay! I get to work from home full-time now. Why am I not receiving a bigger check? The money would really help out; I just bought a new BMW a few months ago!!!!!" And of course there are the home-workers posting about their two-hour bike ride, gardening, chores, but still somehow working "full time" at home."

Canadians are getting $950 every two weeks for at least three months.

WTF R13??? Are you serious?

Every Canadian, or only the unemployed?

Aren’t the Brits getting free medical care?

I doubt $1200 will make much of a dent in anyone’s hospital bills

I'm not envious

[quote] I'm not envious

Sure, Jan.

The British having access to free health care is WAY more valuable than a measly one-time $1200 bribe.

I can now afford the downpayment on a BMW X5 instead of the X3!

I’m on unemployment benefits in Australia (about $180USD/week) and they’re doubling the payment due to covid, as well as handing out $1000USD in bonus payments. I love this virus!

Canadians are getting 4x as much as Americans aren't they?

R21 yes, little ol Canada can cough up but not the US. Most of the $2.5 trillion isn’t for people.

Are they basing the amount of money you get on your last-filed income tax return (2018)?

$1200 is chump change. It won't make up what I've lost from my 401k as a result of the 1%'s stock sell-off party.

Of course it won't, R24. It's a fucking band-aid on a gaping, pus-filled, infected wound. It's shit. The American way of taking care of its own.

Now, if you're a billionaire or multi-millionaire, you can squeeze all the "socialism" you want from your government, in the form of tax cuts, business incentives, etc. Land of the free--for those rich enough to get everything for free.

Yes, it’s based on the 2019 income tax filing, so that’s your 2018 income.

Brit here. Actually the govt have announced all kinds of measures to pay peoples wages while this nightmare plays out. As you know we get free health care via the NHS anyway, but in addition the Chancellor announced that the govt would cover 80% of the wages for the next 3 months at least for all contracted staff who are shut down. In addtion, they announced that they would cover 80% of the profits from the self employed for for the next 3 months in the first instance. There is also a system of grants and loans avaialble There are a few exceptions, but it should tide over quite a few people for a while. Banks have announced mortgage repayment holidays. There are still some people who won't get anything other than the unemployment payout which is about £93 per week (c. $110) but the majority are covered by something. I'm sure we are going to face another 10 years plus of austerity to pay all this back when it's over mind you.

Thanks, R27. American here. I knew that in the UK they're taking a lot of extraordinary measures, and thanks again for spelling them all out. Unfortunately, because half the U.S. is too stupid to live and actually support the criminal in the WH, they'll make sure they'll continue to fuck themselves out of all the things (like ventilators, etc) they need to survive this, especially now since the virus is traveling to fly-over land. Let's hope the other half of the country that hates Dump and the GOP manage to survive and can pull it together to vote them out. But the stimulus package being provided will only help so many people, and not the ones who need it the most.

“Brit here. Actually the govt have announced all kinds of measures to pay peoples wages while this nightmare plays out.“

Not ‘whilst”?

[quote] Aren’t the Brits getting free medical care?

Brits do not and never have had "free" medical care. They pay for that medical care dearly with taxes that goes specifically to fund the NHS.

Which means they always have it, unlike in the U.S., where, if you have to go into the ER with a broken leg, you come out paying $15,000. Would gladly have taxes taken out to get decent and affordable medical care, R30.

True enough R30, but the National Insurance payment is taken out of everyone's pay from the first to the last, so you get so you don't notice it - hence the myth that the NHS is free. I forget the exact percentage, something like 12%, and the employer makes a contribution too. It's a great system to be honest, as the rich pay proportionately more and no one has to worry. The poorest in the land know they will get free treatment for anything and everying from a broken arm to cancer or a heart attack. Up until the current crisis Boris Johnson and his cronies were trying to sell off bits of it to the highest bidder. Doubt people will stand for that now - the NHS and it's staff have become untouchable.

Glad to hear that, R32. In the States, if ou don't have decent insurance, you're lucky if it's merely a broken leg for $15k--if it's something more serious, you can make that bill $150k, and counting. Another example of what I mean when I say, "half the country is too stupid to live." They should be more concerned about having an NHS, instead of rushing to defend the NRA.

This is a shit show. That money should have gone to poor and/or unemployed people only. Food banks, homeless shelters, churches who feed the poor...

Giving well-off people free money is retarded.

Where’s my check???

R34 I agree and am donating my check.

Me, too.

Bullshit

This is not just a one-time payment. For people still working it is, but for those unemployed, the Feds have added $600 to the state maximum UI.

In New Jersey, for example, the maximum weekly payout for UI is $425/wk. With this stimulus, the maximum amount will be $1,025/wk. While you cannot make more than you were earning, for all intents and purposes most unemployed will be collecting their full salary.

R34 "That money should have gone to poor and/or unemployed people"

It is unbelievable that some Americans are so brainwashed that they resent their fellow citizens getting a paltry $1200.00 from the richest government in the world. You are truly a pathetic lot. If CV killed off half of you the world would be a better place.

I’m disgusted that all the US can offer is a one time $1,200 payment. That’s nothing. How much do we waste on the military?

I agree. They can at least throw a EBT card in there was well.

As a black person this is closest thing to reparations we are going to get, so hell no Im not donating my check to another bitch!

R43 right on! We must demand more from our slave masters (aka CEOs)

Wow, R20. That's generous of Australia.

But Canada still wins.

Go, Justin!

R43/ R44 The reddit roaches have arrived.

Is Canada's payment to Canadians, a one time deal?

How much are you getting, Canadians?

R33 - I wanted to ask, but DL went over to peak time so I couldn't. I've always been curious about the American health system. If someone without insurance were to get this virus and need hospitalisation, (or any medical assistance for anything else for that matter), what happens? Surely they aren't left to die? Are there contingency funds or systems to help?

R48 If they are admitted to the ER the hospital can not legally turn them away. If they can not pay they will be billed after discharge.

Thanks R49, but what happens if they can't pay - say someone who is homeless for example?

The hospital just has to bear the cost, R50.

I'm sure it gets passed on to the consumer, somehow.

And the person without insurance ends up with credit in the toilet, and debt in the five or six figures.

I have a PPO, a very good insurance plan, though my job. It covers almost everything, including at least 80 percent of any doctor visit.

Many years ago, our CEO and HR person pressured those of us who had enrolled in the best plan to downgrade to a “network-only PPO.” I was young, 31, and had been pretty healthy and so I “took one for the team.” No big deal.

My health fell apart that year, with sudden MS-like symptoms that included extreme nerve pain and even temporary paralysis of my leg.

My doctor referred me for an MRI. I found out the hard way that this “network-only PPO” operated like an HMO.

The MRI center billed me over $8,000 for the one scan. They said insurance would not pay because the center was out of network.

So I was now in my early thirties, facing what might be a disabled future, with one medical test taking out a huge chunk of my savings.

I knew that insurance companies never pay what hospitals bill. They always negotiate. I couldn’t get an exact number, but I got the insurance company to say they would pay something like 10% of the billed amount. So I called the MRI center and I pleaded with them, begged them, yelled at them, cried etc., and I managed to get the bill down to $3,500 to be paid over a year. An insurance company probably would pay something like $500. Maybe $500.

Healthcare providers charge unconscionable sums of money to uninsured and underinsured patients because they can. It defrays the low costs that they’re forced to charge insurance companies that have negotiating power. So the wealthiest people with the best insurance pay the least, and the poorest people who have (often poverty-related) poor health are bankrupted by healthcare.

Of course we are jealous, OP. Daddy Trump gave you some pocket money.

Pity it won’t cover your medical costs and that he’s bragging about not supplying some states with the equipment they need.

And you have people queueing up to buy guns.

Can’t think of a better place to be.

[quote]Every Canadian, or only the unemployed?

Every Canadian, but I'm sure there is a wealth cap on it, like those making above a certain amount don't get it.

R48 in the US any hospital that receives any sort of government funds (which is almost all of them) can not turn a patient away for lack of ability to pay. A private hospital that receives no government funding can pick and choose who they will admit. That doesn't mean some public hospitals don't try to turn patients away or send them to another hospital, because it happens all the time.

You should know that in the US private pay patients (those without any sort of insurance) are on average billed at 3 times the rate the hospital would bill an insurance company for the same services.

R27, r28 the British government isn't offering anything more than what other governments in Europe and elsewhere are offering. Part of the reason why the British government avoided declaring a full lockdown for so long was to avoid having to make such payouts. The greater number of eventual infections as a result of that though is going to end up costing a lot more.

Yes, we get free medical care at the point of service - although the NHS can't cope right now.

[R52], I'm so sorry you listened to the CEO and HR. I might've done the same thing. If it's any consolation, I'm hating on them big time and will for 30 make that 40 days.

R18 nothing is free. Taxes are quite high in the UK to pay for free health care as they will be in the US if Bernie gets elected

R57 Years later I complained to the HR lady about it. She claimed not to remember asking us to do that and told me, “I would never do that myself. I have diabetes. I need my healthcare!”

She was fired last year, after 16 years, for stealing.

R48, R33 in the U.S. here. I have never seen or been to a private hospital, but if someone without insurance goes to the ER in a public hospital, they can't be turned away. If they get sick with COVID-19, and go to the ER, they are (according to the doctor below) examined and if they're really ill with it, they are admitted and would be put on a ventilator. The problem is having enough equipment available to accommodate sick people.

I know someone who didn't have insurance and was taken to the ER when they fell on the street and were knocked unconscious with a concussion. He was taken to the nearest hospital, got a CAT scan, and refused to sign any papers, which included a paper saying they would be responsible for the bill. No one is forced to sign anything in the hospital. He spent the night in ER, and was released. After a few attempts to bill, the hospital stopped sending bills.

The video below is long but offers a lot of sage advice about what exactly to do to prevent getting infected, and is in fact quite comforting.

My doctor once made me take a urine test because “all new patients must”. Well silly me did and got stuck with a $850 bill. After screaming at the testing lab for an hour, I never got billed again. Don’t just accept crap.

If you’re on Social Security you get nothing.

R52 I hope since then you've made sure to check on what your insurance will pay before you allow any doctor or hospital rack up charges. And frankly, you should have told the MRI people you were willing to pay what an insurance company would pay and nothing more. Trust me, they would have ended up settling for that.

Wrong, R62.

Will this count as income against my EBT and Medicaid benefits? Yes, I'm poor.

Jealous of $1,200? Bitch please.

I wouldn't move to the US if you paid me $1million. Trump is making a bigger mess of the pandemic that pretty much anyone else - like he does with everything. Our government are idiots too but at least they are just idiots. Yours are literally insane, evil, corrupt and incompetent. $1,200 is small compensation for having to endure that.

I don't see how it would, R65.

Then they've changed it because originally those getting monthly government payments from SS were left out, since they had not seen a reduction in their SS income.

Per the article at R64: "The checks are based on all income, which means retirees, Social Security and those who claim other benefits, such as Supplemental Security Income, are eligible."

I cackled when I saw OP’s post. Jealous of your $1200? Oh, honey.

The silver lining is this crisis has relieved the " greatest health care system in the world" for what it really is : Lipstick on a grossly profitable pig.

I'm not sure why my fellow Brits are crowing at the $1200 Americans are getting. That payout is part of a $2 trillion stimulus, the largest economic aid package in history, a $500 billion rescue fund for companies, $100 billion for hospitals, an increase in unemployment funds, and lots more.

Yes, the US is fucked right now but so is the UK. Many countries are fucked at present, but the US and UK by their own making, and the UK in some ways even more so by its own making than the US.

It also has to be said but is often forgetten that the US has the highest number of ventilators per capita in the world. And companies that make ventilators.

[quote] Will this count as income against my EBT and Medicaid benefits? Yes, I'm poor

Highly doubtful.

Mr. Trump wants his signature on the checks, as if they were paper.

I don’t care if the check has Trump’s signature on it or not because i’ll be donating every dollar to Biden‘s campaign!

R72 not to mention that while it will be painful, the US has the capacity to borrow the money needed to pay for the stimulus at low interest rates and to repay it. Yes, US insurance premiums (and otherwise un- or under-covered health care costs) will rise to pay for care. Taxes will have to be raised, too, but the US economy is large enough to absorb the hits.

Having begun the process of exiting the EU (an action which in itself was predicted to be enormously costly before the pandemic) you have to ask where the UK will find the money to pay for a stimulus package that, so far, amounts to less than a tenth of what the US has authorized spending. Put another way, that's roughly double what the UK has budgeted so far on a per capita basis.

Calm down. This isn't 'free' money, you know. Not only will it get taxed but taxes will increase to cover it. Woot.

Wrong, know-it-all R77.

"No, the stimulus checks are not taxable. However, if your 2020 income is much higher than your 2018 or 2019 income, you may be required to pay back a portion of the stimulus payment next year if your new income is above the threshold. This should be a small number of Americans."

R78 Very few people's 2020 income will be higher than 2019.

People on SSI and SSDI, SNAP etc like myself will get a check, fuck you bitches!!! I also get Prime at half off too because I'm on Medicaid, fuck you bitches again!!! I get whatever I can get out of the system and now at 55 I can sometimes get a senior discount too! Fuck you bitches to hell!!!

I hate this thread. Fuck you all!

the only reason we got $1200 is so that Trump can steal from the 500 million

[quote] like myself will get a check,

Eyeroll.

I suppose it will all be paid back via some kind of new Federal Purchase Tax (the easiest way of raising money).

Here in Europe we are expecting ours to jump from around 20% (in most Countries) to nearer 25%.

No Country (Europe or US) is likely to raise income tax, it's too unpopular.

Rofl at R80!

Btw, what's "Prime?"

If you gave the IRS your bank routing number when you filed last year, they’ll deposit your check to that account. If they don’t have your bank info, the check will come in the mail.

R84 we can raise the US tax rates on companies and billionaires. Won’t impact 99.9% of the population. Anyone sitting on billions while we suffer now should be guillotined.

This was only passed to distract from government grifters pocketing a huge portion of the cash. They know the average American peasant, living hand-to-mouth, will be dazzled by any amount greater than three figures.

[quote] If you gave the IRS your bank routing number when you filed last year, they’ll deposit your check to that account. If they don’t have your bank info, the check will come in the mail.

When is this supposed to happen?

What R1 and R2 said. If you think this stimulus is adequate, let alone brag-worthy, you’re a moron

R88 So true.

Americans are so stupid. They are happy over $1200 that will vanish into thin air in no time.

$1,200 won’t even cover my monthly caviar bill. So I don’t care I’m not getting anything.

By coincidence, the amount of the Dump tax cuts a couple years ago? $2 trillion.

[quote] When is this supposed to happen?

I saw somewhere over the weekend the direct deposits should start going out next week. People who will get paper checks will have to wait probably 3-4 weeks.

OUR KINDLY NEIGHBORS in CANADA: C$2,000 a month benefit for up to fourth months to workers affected by the outbreak. The benefit is also available to Canadian workers affected by the current situation whether or not they are eligible for Employment Insurance.

Seriously? The feds will give 600 bucks on top of UI?

“Up to” an extra $600 a week if that’s what you made in excess of the maximum you’d otherwise collect. If you’re eligible for your state’s maximum unemployment benefit (it varies by state) of, say, $500/week but made $2,000/week you’d get $1100 a week from unemployment. But if your last salary was $1,000 a week you’d get $1,000, not $1100.

That’s if you got laid off and for up to four months. Meaning potentially an extra $10,800 - up to $600/week x 17 or 18 weeks - in addition to the regular amount you’d get from unemployment. And in addition to the $1200 one-time payment pp plus more if you have kids. So potentially $12,000 more than you’d have otherwise gotten.

That sounds decent. Thank Chuck Schumer and the Democrats because the Republicans didn’t want you to get it, saying it would sap people’s initiative to go back to work when the crisis is over. They didn’t mention that a lot of jobs won’t exist then.

[quote]Btw, what's "Prime?"

Amazon Prime, of course. I just checked it out, it's legit. According to the tab in my Amazon account, "Prime is just $5.99/month* for qualifying customers with an EBT or Medicaid card. Cancel anytime."

Thank you R97!

My best friend is out of a job and so depressed. He's over 40, nobody is gonna hire him when this ends, he's in hospitality field.

If he’s hot, he’ll get hired.

Seriously though, be there for him. When this whole thing ends I’m sure they’ll need him. Especially with his experience.

r99 tell your friend that if he doesn't get his job back it is time for him to move on and find a new vocation. There is something better out there waiting for him and in a few years he will be able to say this is the best thing that ever happened to him.

R101

R101 deserves a hard "OK, Boomer!" for that stupidity. Jesus fucking christ, people are not going to get out of this mess by simply "finding a new vocation." What fucking La-La Land do you even live it to mouth such stupid platitudes at a time like this??? People are going to lose their homes over this without some radical support, those that don't die of course.

Where my check at?

r103 people responded to me the same way when I told them to start stocking up for what was coming and for other various things that I was right about. I do not post things lightly with no thought about what I am saying and telling everyone that it is going to be roses and rainbows.

Read my post, then read yours. Who do you think people would rather hear from?

In NY, If you can't pay your rent, you can't be evicted for 90 days...it applies to business rents as well. But you still owe the $$$ after 3 months. Cuomo was asked about what happens after that at the press conference today and he dodged the question.

I want 1200$ every month for every non millionaire American for the next 4 months. Corporations that do not pay taxes can pay for it.

[quote] I want 1200$ every month

Learn proper English first, then maybe you won’t need a handout.

Not ALL are, R91. Watch yourself.

How are the two related, bitch R108?

R105 Ignore it. Or block it. Who needs that kind of shit at the moment?

You have some optimism. R103 communicates by shrieking. I’d sooner listen to you.

You’d think tough times would make people better. Not so, I guess.

I would earn more $$$ being fired than I do now working from home... people are going to milk the unemployment benefits. The $1,200 check is nothing compared to unemployment right now.

Chat rooms demand proper English? What the f*ck is LOL?

We do here, r113.

This is not a “chat room” and we pride ourselves on proper grammar.

Welcome.

Shoes!

R104

Agreed, R112.

But what about after that?

If I was in that position, I would be polishing off my resume, and exploring job opportunities.

Once things open back up, it's going to be a mad dash free-for-all, for job hunters.

R117 agreed. It just makes me kind of pissed I’m earning less than someone sitting on their ass for 4 months or longer. And sit they will until it’s a crisis to get ANY job. This wasn’t very well though out.

^ spoken like a true Repug.

Pelosi and the dems are apparently working on 4 future stimulus plans.

We're going to see Trump's approvals take a drastic drop as soon as the virus starts moving in from the coasts and the big cities and rural people with limited health care options start getting sick and businesses start closing. There are millions of people in this country who live 50 miles or more from the nearest hospital. There are rural counties that have no hospital at all. And it's not matter "if" this happens, it's a matter of "when" it happens, and it's going to happen.

There are many way to get $1200. This way is easy way but I know others.

R113, R114 is a grammar troll aka a cunt just press the ignore button. I did!

I hope there is many more checks to come.

Yaaaaaas bitch

How old are you OP? I'm guessing somewhere around 12?

To those concerned about having to file a tax return despite not making enough to require doing so: if you are on Social Security they have your address and will send you a check w/o the need for a “zero $ owed” return. The rule was changed last night.

If you don’t receive SS money and didn’t file a return, you will still have to, if only to give the Treasury your current address. They have to know where you are. They aren’t going to send $1200 checks to “Current Resident” - for one thing, they’d be hard to cash unless your name was “Current Resident.”

My hours have been reduced. I imagine a lot of folks are in the same situation. More checks? Debt relief? Any relief?

Where my check at?

Amen r128

The latest word is that the first 60 million payments will go out week after next (week of the 13th). These will go to all the people with direct deposit records on file with the IRS (both from tax returns and Soc. Sec. 1099s). The paper checks will then start going out the week after that at 5 million checks per week. They're saying it will take up to 20 weeks to get all those folks paid, so some people won't see their checks until late summer. But they say they're going to start the paper checks going out to the folks with the lowest incomes first.

Where’s my fucking money???

As Carroll Baker would say......

But can't people just work from home and draw their regular paycheck?

^^^^^^

^^^ROFLMAO!!!!!

Where’s my MONEY???

Sure, R133--nobody needs to go anywhere to do their jobs. They can do EVERYTHING from home. Bartenders and waiters can just virtually serve everyone from their computers. Likewise garbage collectors, janitors, factory workers...are you really as stupid as you sound, R133? And if so, HOW are you still alive?

IIRC, if you've already filed your taxes this year for 2019, your payment will be based that year, not on 2018. If you haven't filed for 2019 yet, your 2018 income figure will be the determinant of how much/if you receive.

$1,200 is nothing.

Well face it. Congress knows that and didn't really mean for this to keep anyone from going under financially. They meant it to be spent as quickly as possible to prop up the economy. They don't give a rat's ass what you spend it on. And IMO whatever uptick in the economy this stimulus payment provides will be minuscule and momentary.

In Ireland were getting €350 a week for the duration of the crisis.

R141 proves that the US is a piece of shit. How is it that relatively poor countries can now pay decent and ongoing amounts to their people? Fuck this place. We deserve to be hit the hardest.

∆ Government Borrowing. Don't get me wrong they'll probably try to.hike taxes after this is over.

But fuck them they're forcing me to close my business the least they can do is support me.

The population of Ireland is 4.9 million. That's less than the metropolitan population of Atlanta, Ga.. I don't know how many of that number are work age adults, but I think it's a much easier task to provide financially for a population of that number than for the probably close to 200 million work age adults in the US.

The amount of taxation in the US should make it a cinch but for the fact that you give most of it to the army.

R141, does that include the elderly?

R146 anyone over 66 gets the state pension of €266 a week. I'm not sure if they can also apply for the emergency payment on to of that.

No, we don't, R145. We give it first to billionaires and then the military.

We could slash the military budget, tax billionaires equitably, pay for every single thing Bernie is calling for, pay folks $350 a week throughout this crisis, AND provide a Universal Basic Income for everyone when it’s all over.

That, moderates, is how we pay for it.

We could slash the military budget, tax billionaires equitably, pay for every single thing Bernie is calling for, pay folks $350 a week throughout this crisis, AND provide a Universal Basic Income for everyone when it’s all over.

That, moderates, is how we pay for it.

"provide a Universal Basic Income for everyone when it’s all over."

In another words, make the biggest capitalist country in the planet a welfare state. Sure Jan, R150.

*on the planet

You're not really getting anything that wasn't yours already, don't buy Trumps bullshit that he's giving you something

Ireland is only paying those who are out of work due to the virus $350 a week. Not everyone like the USA is.

Indiana is giving EVERYONE who is on SNAP/EBT the maximum allotment for April.....a single person will get $194.

Any individual or family that is already receiving the maximum benefit will not get an increase. A household of 8 gets $1164....

No word on if it will last more than one month.

^ ironically America is one of the few countries with a large enough tax base to swing it technically.

I've had relatives who had no insurance and had to go to the ER. Within 24 hours, the hospital sent them a social worker and got them signed up for Medicaid. One kept the Medicaid, the other dropped the Medicaid because he lives "off the grid" and can't handle any kind of responsibility.

r157 one ancedote about an idiot does not an argument make.

R158 nor does a single swallow a summer make, but hospitals like to get paid so if they see potential coverage, they'll bite. If their admissions and financial people can determine someone is eligible for a government program in the absence of private insurance, you can be damn sure they'll sign them up, knowing that Medicaid, while paying them less than they want, will pay them something. Which is more than they'd get from a lot of patients if they got anything at all.

Maybe it depends what part of the country you are in - my relatives who were signed up for Medicaid were in Connecticut and Pennsylvania, respectively.

Where my check at?

First round of direct deposits and supposed to hit accounts Thursday morning. Here's to hoping we all are among those who get their cash this week!

Good luck everyone. This is a fucked up situation and I hope everyone manages ok.

I be watching on Tursday. Thanks R162.

a federal sales tax of one percent could help us out of this bind, once we get rid of dump. we need jobs with real wages and have shamefully neglected our infrastructure. there is opportunity here to right many wrongs.

R139

You do realize that $1200 or whatever sum is going to every single breathing American adult citizen (or legal resident) with a valid SSN ? Homeless bums in the streets are eligible along with seniors and everyone else. IRS will be setting up (supposedly) a website for those who don't earn/have any income (thus don't file taxes) to get their checks.

Do the sums; there are how many millions of adults in United States? Then multiply that by number you presume to have incomes < threshold to qualify for those $1200 checks.

If you made too much in 2019 to get the $1200 but did qualify in 2018, just wait to file your 2019 taxes since they extended the deadline. That way you can collect a little something extra, hopefully they won't make you pay it back in 2020.

Will be so happy when thing is over has have never been more sick of hearing word "check" in my life.

Where's my check?

I'm gonna get a check

Did you get a check?

How much is my check?

Sounds like something out of a 1970's welfare office.

^^^^ Sounds like something out of Downton Abby

Not everyone's getting a check...

But he could still afford a six-pack

Anyone get theirs yet?

R168 Then why are you on this thread then?

No one is forcing you to be here.

This is all you.

Mine didn't land today......I guess the week of April 13.....maybe Tuesday or Wednesday.

The first ones being sent by direct deposit are supposed to be in people's accounts tonight.

Still didn't get my check yet. And I already gave the downpayment on my new welfare Cadillac.

Not yet.........

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Just checked my account.

My $1200 is scheduled to be deposited on Wednesday April 15.

YAY!!!

I've also got that weird message of a pending $1200 deposit. Cold comfort given how much money I've lost from my 401k thanks to Trump panicking the stock market (and how many billions he's stuffing into the pockets of his donors.)

Got my check.

Now I want another one.

C'mon, trump. Gimme more money!!!!

I am in Indiana and I am as yet unstimulated - which is not unexpected.