(Photo: Allison Bell/ALM)
The IRS is reopening registration for families who did not receive the $500-per-child payments they were entitled to under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act that passed earlier this year.
Payments were supposed to be automatically sent to those with children under 17 who had already filed their taxes for 2019 or 2018 and to those who don't file income tax returns and used the non-filer tool at the IRS website, but there were some glitches.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office found that many stimulus payments distributed between April 10 and May 17 did not include the additional $500 per qualifying child even though those individuals had submitted information about their dependents to the IRS.
On April 20, the IRS, aware that certain non-filers hadn't received the $500-per-child payments, issued an alert for them to use the non-filer tool by April 22 in order to receive those funds.
