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> John Kuthe, RN, BSN...
Weeks ago on Jan. 2, two of us checked with the IRS on its website. She and I both received notifications that our checks went out on Jan. 6, 2021.
Today is January 21, and neither of us has received the second $600 stimulus check. And now IRS says it's not going to mail any more, as of almost two weeks ago, the 12th, if I remember correctly. Why is that and how can that be?
Nor can you go to the IRS site NOW and find out if your check has been mailed, or to track it, although IRS has publicized that those services are available. That service was how we found that our checks had been mailed, or so we were told.
We are both on SS fixed income and overburdened with medical debt and property taxes, so you can imagine how badly we need that money. I had to park my 25-year-old Ford Taurus because the transmission went out. It might as well be junked and I owe $500 on it. Her car, an old 2011 Scion, has all the engine lights on. She is two payments behind and afraid it will be repossessed.
We are not improvident or big spenders. We have both had serious, and expensive, problems with our health -- leukemia, asthma, congestive heart failure, worn-out joints and spinal columns, and unexplained depression other than from having to shelter alone in place. She can hardly walk from one room to the other, and there's no way she can go back to work.
I'm in my late seventies and no longer employable. I have tried to find work without success. Love of money may be the root of all evil, but I believe that it may be the lack of money which is the root of all evil.
Our fridge died a year ago, we can no longer use the sink in the bathroom because of a drainage pipe leak in the basement, our washer has quit, our water heater needs service, the roof leaks, gutter is falling off, the furnace is acting up, creditors come banging on our door, tv cable is turned off for nonpayment, and both of our dogs are elderly, sick, and need veterinary care.
She has been very depressed lately and told me yesterday she wished she could just lay down and die. She said that death would relieve her of all the sad things that constantly worry her. So I watch her most all the time to make sure she doesn't try to kill herself. Personally, I believe that her love for the doggies is all that keeps her alive.