Stimulus debit card

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Hey all.

Apparently, some people instead of receiving a stimulus check, will instead receive a debit card.

The envelope’s return address is from Omaha (at least mine)

Anyway, it could look like junk mail or a credit card offer, but it’s the stimulus.
 
I guess that’s a new thing. When my teenage son got his first real paying job, he had the option of direct deposit to a bank account, or a “pay card” (rechargeable prepaid debit card). The latter I guess is for people who don’t use bank accounts.
 
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I believe it is supposed to say Money Network or something like that on the
envelope. That is why many people have been throwing it away thinking it is junk mail.
 
Legitimate companies who send money cards through the mail are very cagey about labeling the envelope. It will often say “Address correction requested” and have a cryptic, minimal return address. Of course it is usually obvious when a card is enclosed (try to bend the envelope). I am always rightly intrigued when such a mailing comes to me, especially if it was unexpected.
 
Yes. It sounds like a pretend company.

Then I was nervous when I had to activate it, because you need to put in your social security number.

I would have preferred the check, I could deposit that.
 
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Yes. It sounds like a pretend company.

Then I was nervous when I had to activate it, because you need to put in your social security number.

I would have preferred the check, I could deposit that.
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That would make me nervous too. I definitely would prefer the check as I am not using the money for frivolous spending, but for bills, etc.

Sadly, I have not even received my first stimulus payment yet. So consider yourself lucky receiving both!!
 
This was the first. We just got it. We never got a check.
 
Oh, I see. Well, at least you got one payment. I have about given up on mine.
 
Did it go into you account through direct deposit maybe? It was just this week ours arrived.
 
No, not yet. I had to close my checking account linked with my 2018 tax return
in February because I lost my billfold (I found it 2 days later, but accounts already closed and new ones opened).

For some reason it is taking them a long time to realize social security has my
correct banking info as my social security is direct deposited into my new account
every month.
 
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