
Stimulus debit card envelope for free#

Some people who received a paper check last time might receive a prepaid debit card this time, and some people who received a prepaid debit card last time may receive a paper check this time. Taxpayers should note that the form of payment for the second mailed EIP may be different than the first mailed EIP. The prepaid debit card, called the Economic Impact Payment card, is sponsored by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service and is issued by Treasury's financial agent, MetaBank®, N.A. If you don’t receive a direct deposit and Get My Payment on IRS.gov shows a date that your payment was mailed, watch your mail for either a paper check or debit card. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service began sending approximately 8 million second Economic Impact Payments (EIPs) by prepaid debit card, following millions of payments already made by direct deposit and the ongoing mailing of paper checks that are delivering the second round of Economic Impact Payments as rapidly as possible. You can see a sample image of the prepaid debit card and its envelope below.Starting this month, the U.S. The IRS is also making people aware that just because people may have received their previous $1,200 stimulus payment via check, their $600 payment may come via the prepaid debit card-or vice versa.

Below the return address and above the mailing address, the envelope has “Not a bill or an advertisement.The envelope will be a regular letter-size envelop with the first line of return address stating: “Economic Impact Payment Card.”.

With this in mind, the IRS is urging people to carefully check the postal mail they receive so they don’t accidentally discard the prepaid debit card thinking it is junk mail, a bill, or a scam. The IRS says it will send out around eight million prepaid debit cards in total. However, yesterday the IRS announced that it will also begin sending out prepaid debit cards with the stimulus payment loaded on them this week.

Most of those who haven’t provided their bank account information to the IRS can expect their stimulus check to arrive in the postal mail as a paper check.
