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I filed mine through turbo tax and I haven't received mine either this is crazy. What was the point behind e-filing?

I was foolish enough to "count on" so to speak this money. I am far to mature to fall into this trap, but its like when you find 20 bucks in your coat pocket, you're eager to spend it. I understand the addition made to the (FAQ) portion of the Stimulus page. I find it does make sense, however I feel the majority of Americans like myself were mis-lead.

However I feel we can only blame ourselves for our misunderstanding, thus said Turbo Tax (which i used and yes had my fees paid through my deposit) should have notified its valued customers initially.

As mentioned in this blog earlier, some users of "Turbo Tax" received their monies on schedule. My brother used "Turbo Tax", paid his fees with his Credit Card. I learned my lesson now.

I am going to put my stimulus money into Savings anyway, but I spent money on the ever rising Airline prices to see my sister Graduate. We all can thank our ever shady media for the misrepresentation of these monies.

My sentiments exactly Andrew. What a nitwit she is!!

I actually did read all the stimpulations, BUT the one in reference to "If you had any preparation fees deducted from your refund, or opted for rapid refund" you WILL BE RECEIVING a paper check not DIRECT DEPOSIT was added to the irs.gov.ca website 5/5/08. After many people including myself, spent money prior because we depended upon the 1st information posted "THE PAYMENT SCHEDULE" which was added to their website mid March 2008. We all BELIEVED in the government that the DATE they referenced PER THE LAST 2 DIGITS OF your social security number IS THE DATE YOU'LL GET YOUR REBATE VIA DIRECT DEPOSIT. Who would've thought the GOVERNMENT would change the plan at hand knowing MANY not just A FEW would spend money prior to receiving the REBATE BELIEVING they'd receive money on the Date advised. So NOW that WE'RE ALL IN MORE DEBT than before, ONCE we receive OUR PAPER CHECKS (for me End of July,originally anticipating 5/16/08 Direct Deposit) WE'RE really in the same spot financially before they announced the rebate "BROKE" and living check to check

As a human we have the right and the abilty to comment on things...such is life! Especially when we are dealing with financial and political issues. I for one have mixed feeling about the situation, becuase the goverment never says what they mean and mean what they say. Meaning we were told everyone will get the checks in May okay I know its just the beginning of may but now we have all theses dates and stipulations on why we wont get them as soon as we thought. You dont know peoples financial situations either to make them feel like we should not respond the way we are. We are not only americans we are human. deal with it!

Well said, Andrew. I completely agree that people should use this money for their own financial gain not just blow it on garbage they otherwise wouldn't purchase.

I received mine today which is exactly when I calculated that it should arrive. Every dime has gone to the savings and will remain there until it needs to be spent on something necessary.

Tara, I did foolish spending yesterday thinking I was getting a check today direct deposit. NO CHECK. I further did research and found out the way I did my tax cut by HR BLOCK I chose to have the filing fees withheld from check this caused a paper check which is not until June. This makes me so mad why would it matter if I had tax preparation fees deduct from 2007 tax refund if I didn't and paid upfront fees I would have my money today like scheduled. However this really is bad for me. They should not punish you. Crazy I was broke so I had the fees withheld. Reality is I'm more broke today then ever before. We all expect IRS to gives us some relief and help not punish us for being broke.

If you want to track what actually happens to the "stimulus" be sure to include the fact that people who owe taxes, even if they have a payment plan in place, will have their checks sucked right back into the hands of their benevolent government. No matter that we still have to buy gas etc etc at the same price as everyone else. And that's not printed in any of the press releases either. Stimulus my eye!

Well said! Instead of spending, spending, spending, save your money or pay down your debt. This isn't the first time the country has had problems economically and it won't be the last.

You can however be prepared for whatever happens if you take care of your money wisely.

. . . will do literally nothing to stimulate this stagnant and sputtering economy . . .

a little metaphor-adjustment wouldn't hurt here.