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When will I get my coronavirus check? For some, maybe soon.
1:00 p.m.
The much-anticipated (and for some, direly needed) coronavirus stimulus began to be sent to direct deposit accounts late this week. Here’s a timeline to see, according to Forbes, when yours is expected to show up in your digital or literal mailbox.
If you are not required to file taxes and receive Social Security, your stimulus will be sent automatically.
April 9
The Internal Revenue Service was expected to begin depositing checks to those that filed taxes in 2019 or 2018 and listed a direct deposit account on Thursday. That money could clear banks on April 14, and maybe even sooner.
April 24
Paper checks are scheduled to hit the mail, sent to the lowest earners first. Are you a taxpayer who made less than $10,000 a year? Your check is on the top of the pile.
May 1
The divvying continues. If you paid taxes and made more than $10K, but less than $20,000, your check will mail the first week of May.
May 8
Checks for taxpayers that made between $20,001 and $30,000 will be mailed this week
May to September
Stimulus checks will continue to be sent from the lowest to highest income earners, based on information from 2019 and or 2018 taxes.
Sept. 4
Highest earning couples, making up to $198,000 jointly, will be sent their stimulus check this week.
Sept. 11
If you didn’t provide the IRS with your contact information during the last two annual tax periods or did not fill out the contact information form at IRS.gov, your check will be put in the mail on Sept. 11.
Still need to let Uncle Sam know where to send your stimulus check or if you qualify? Go to this website to learn more and update your contact information: Coronavirus Stimulus Payments.
Washington cedes federal resources to states that are worse
11:15 a.m.
Washington, site of the nation’s first coronavirus outbreak, has started to return stockpiles of medical supplies to the federal government as the governor believes the state’s hospitals can now support themselves, The Associated Press reported.
Gov. Jay Inslee announced earlier this week that a field hospital set up at CenturyLink Field — home to the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks — and staffed by military medical providers would be returned to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for redeployment to a worse-off state.
In a statement, the Army said it was ready to accept new assignments to support the nation’s pandemic response.
Washington is also returning 400 of the federal government’s ventilators to the national stockpile, according to The Seattle Times.
“Don’t let this decision give you the impression that we are out of the woods. We have to keep our guard up and continue to stay home unless conducting essential activities to keep everyone healthy,” Inslee warned.
The state has purchased 1,000 hospital beds and upwards of 900 of its own ventilators to support the state’s hospitals. Washington is also leasing a former hospital building with the capacity to treat 250 patients with other conditions to make room for the coronavirus surge in other facilities.
More than 9,000 people have tested positive for the virus in Washington, where it has killed 420 people.
Military reservists combat the coronavirus in New York
9 a.m.
Reservist soldiers, sailors and airmen from the military’s Northern Command have deployed across the continental Unites States to fight the coronavirus, USNORTHCOM reports.
Around 5,700 service members from the Army, Navy and Air Force — to include 1,100 health care providers in the reserves — are now supporting individual state responses to the pandemic. Early on, the military tried to avoid mobilizing reservists who would have been providing medical care in the own communities.
A large portion of that force is in New York City where COVID-19 is taking a deadly toll. Of the 16,700 coronavirus victims in the Unites States, more than 5,100 died in the city’s boroughs.
In Manhattan’s Hudson Yards neighborhood, 775 military personnel have mobilized to a makeshift hospitals at the Javits Center and another 325 are augmenting staff at 11 hospitals throughout the city.
Smaller task forces of 85 medical professionals have also mobilized to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Another 70 mortuary affairs soldiers are assisting New York City’s chief medical examiner in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn.
U.S. Army North Commander Lt. Gen. Laura Richardson said they are “committed to increasing medical capacity and collaboration for medical assistance and disaster relief in areas of our country that have seen a tremendous impact from the coronavirus pandemic.”