Did you get an actual answer from the IRS "Get My Payment" site? Please post here!

[Towlie]

Please post here whether you got an answer, either yes or no, from the IRS "Get My Payment" website. If not, what was the response that you did get?

And either way, please also answer these questions:

Did you enter your Social Security number with or without dashes? i.e. "123456789" or "123-45-6789"?

Did you enter your date of birth in the MM/DD/YYYY format or some other format?

What format did you use for your street address? If it failed, did you try looking up your address on the USPS.COM site and entering it way the USPS has it? Did that work?

It's frustrating that when the IRS site doesn't return a proper response, you can't tell whether the site doesn't recognize who you are, or it does know who you are but can't answer for some other reason.

[markie]

1. I got a date

my partner got "cannot process at this time" or some such thing
and my daughter got the deposit in her account Saturday

[Kaleva]

2. I had to use my p.o. box instead of my street address

I'm approved but payment date not determined yet

[MLAA]

3. Yes, got answer

Entered SS with no dashes
Entered date including the forward slashes xx/xx/xxxx

[VMA131Marine]

4. I got a date - 3/17

[ratchiweenie]

39. Apparently Chase, Citibank, etc. received the money already but are holding it until

Wednesday so they have use of the money for those 6 days. Most of us won't get our payment until Wednesday. Not sure how many banks are doing this but most of the small ones released the money immediately.

[TxGuitar]

53. This is because

The IT depts have a shitload of work to do. They got very little notice to set every thing up and if was a weekend also. (I work in IT for a top 20 bank)

[mrsv]

5. I got Wednesday

March 17th. I used no spaces.

[jorgevlorgan]

6. Wednesday too

[Dagstead Bumwood]

7. I got the following:

Payment Status - Not Available
We are unable to provide the status of your payment right now because:

We don't have enough information yet (we're working on this), or
You're not eligible for a payment.

So, no shopping spree for me Hope the people who need it more than us are getting it sooner.

[Bayard]

26. Same here

[Blue Dawn]

37. And same here.

[Trueblue1968]

44. Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://sa.www4.irs.gov/irfof-wmsp/login" on this

I GOT THIS ::::::::

Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://sa.www4.irs.gov/irfof-wmsp/login" on this server.

Reference #18.2dd5c217.1615843278.17ccabc2



WHY ?????? Why don't they like me???

[Dagstead Bumwood]

48. Stay where you are.

The black helicopters should reach you shortly

[Trueblue1968]

52. BUT.... BUT.... BUT!!! I ARE INNOCENT!! i didn't do nothing wrong. I am innocent as a babe.

my 5 cats can attest to that as can my ken-pecked (sometimes) hubby!!!

I won't take this sitting down, lying down or standing up.

[Dagstead Bumwood]

55. Five Cats?!

Yes, clearly you have no time available to get into trouble

[Trueblue1968]

57. my hubby found them all. he took care of a feral cat colony.

fed them, housed them. we never had the $$ to get them nuetered. our Gracie went to Cat Heaven.... Sophie did too. In 2010, he found Annie and Taffy at a metal recycling yard. Snickers went to Cat Heaven soon AFTER. Our girl INKY was a feral baby and we adopted her to kinda take place of Sophie our cat panther. Year after that, he found baby Sadie and brought her home. She was a greedy little girl who loved her replacement milk. few months after that he found our boy cat SALLY. Vets told us 2 times Sally was a girl.... well he wasn't. Sally knew his name so we kept it.

Always liked the Johnny Cash song.... a boy named Sue so we got a boy cat with a girl name. All of our cats were rescued. the cats in hubby's colony have just disappeared so we won't be adopting any more. ANNIE, TAFFY AND INKY will be 11 this year and SADIE & SALLY will be 8.

yes 5 cats make us very busy so hub and i can't get into trouble.

[Deuce]

61. I received the same message. But, the $1,400 is on hold in my checking account until the 17th.

[Totally Tunsie]

49. Ditto

I also tried entering my SS# both with and without the dashes.

[winetourdriver01]

8. irs site

Yes, I checked yesterday, and it gave me a date- 3/17... I did not use dashes in my s/s and just followed directions on the rest, it was easy and fast.

[SilverDawg]

9. Wednesday 3/17

for my deposit.

[W_HAMILTON]

10. Yes, I got an answer that it is scheduled to be deposited in my bank account on Wednesday.

I entered my SSN without dashes and entered my birthday how the input stipulated (i.e., DD/MM/YYYY, including the dashes).

[WVGal1963]

11. Yes

It said my check and my husband’s check is scheduled for deposit into our checking on Wednesday, March 17. I entered our socials without dashes, and had to use our PO Box instead of our physical address. Another friend checked his and the information was exactly like ours.

[Drunken Irishman]

12. Already posted about it - I get not available. 🤷‍♂️

[CrispyQ]

13. If the past is an indicator, it's not looking good for me & my husband.

Payment Status - Not Available
We are unable to provide the status of your payment right now because:

We don't have enough information yet (we're working on this), or
You're not eligible for a payment.
=====================

We got relief payment #1 with no problem. But with relief payment #2, my husband got the above message & he never got any money. Now we're both getting this message. Our only recourse for his missing payment #2 is to claim it on our 2019 taxes. I'm gonna be a little POd if we have to wait until next year's tax time to get this payment.

[Sogo]

14. I've got this for the $1400 relief funds, but just plain ERROR re the $600.

Payment Status - Not Available

We are unable to provide the status of your payment right now because:

We don't have enough information yet (we're working on this), or
You're not eligible for a payment.
For more information about why you're receiving this message, see our Frequently Asked Questions.

You can check the application again to see whether there has been an update to your information. Get My Payment data is updated once per day, so there's no need to check back more often.



So, I have gotten neither. I guess I'll have to turn it all over to my tax accountant to try and get both through my tax filing....

[shanti]

15. Just checked my CU acct

And it's there, along with my tax refund. Originally, was told that it would be in there on the 17th, so that was a pleasant surprise.

[JimGinPA]

16. I Got An Odd Response...

[berniesandersmittens]

47. Me too!

[JimGinPA]

51. Well, You Picked A Warm New Username

[berniesandersmittens]

56. Warm and fuzzy

....and a bit scratchy LMAO

I loved the mittens and memes so much. Not much makes me laugh these days, but those memes were hilarious.

[Jim G.]

62. Well...

I went ahead & changed my username too. I've been going back & forth on it ever since the announcement. I moved back to the St. Louis area (where I grew up) five years ago, so my former username was a little confusing to some here.

A couple of my sisters went a little overboard on the "Bernie mittens" memes but some were hilarious.

[MineralMan]

17. Yes. I got an answer. My money will be in the bank on Wednesday.

On that site, do not use dashes in your SS#. Just numbers.
Date of birth in the format they show underneath that field, which is just as you showed.
Address must be the USPS approved address. If you don't know it, you can look it up, at the link you provided.

The site works, but has lousy error correction routines. You have to enter data in the format it expects. It should not be that finicky, but it is. Their field verification system could strip out the hyphens from the SS#.
It could tell you if you entered the birthdate in the wrong format.
It could check the USPS address verifier for you.

It does not do those things, but it should. Amazon does. Other sites do. That IRS site does not. It should, but it doesn't.

[Towlie]

27. Yes the site should be more flexible, but unlike Amazon they're not concerned about losing business.

 
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And it looks like just about everyone here who got an answer was told that they'll get paid on Wednesday, 3/17/2021.

[MineralMan]

33. Yes. I've noticed that most government websites with data entry forms

do not do customer-friendly data verification. I've run into that elsewhere, too. Without an error correcting routine for each field, any error just causes the system to present an error message or not to provide a result.

I'm not sure why good data verification routines are not used. It could be that the underlying database software is antiquated and doesn't offer proper error handling routines. Or it could just be laziness on the part of those who create the interface.

But, you're right. Business have to avoid annoying their customers, so they pay attention to such things. The government doesn't have to avoid that, so it doesn't. It should.

I'm very, very careful when doing data entry on any government website. I know the rules. I look carefully at the instructions and follow them to the letter. I know my correct USPS address format. In fact, Chrome usually fills in such forms automatically, and I've loaded all the correctly formatted information into my information so it gets it right every time.

The proper way to take SS# information is to use three separate fields, advancing to the next one when the previous one has a valid data entry.

Same thing with date fields. A lot of business websites force you to use drop-down lists to make sure you get the date field correct.

Same with credit card numbers, but most commercial sites let you enter it any way you like, using spaces or dashes or whatever, and then stripping out those unnecessary items to the raw numbers.

Phone numbers can be handled the same way as SS #s or any numerical data entry fields that people fill out in multiple ways. If someone puts the area code inside parentheses, and used hyphens in the phone number, a bone simple routine can strip out any non-numerical characters. Child's play for even a novice programmer, and most data entry modules include such features anyhow.

But the government doesn't understand interface design. It's like stepping back into the early 1980s on most websites when a user needs to enter data.

[Jose Garcia]

18. Yes. 3/17

[Fullduplexxx]

19. Yes march17

[mvd]

20. Yes, but I didn't like the answers for me and my mom

For me - deposit date of 3/17 to a closed account yet again! Last time they did reissue a check, but who knows how long it will take. For the second stimulus, I was delayed a month.

For my mom - she gets the Not Available message. This may mean she is in the upcoming batch that will be mailed. Best scenario would be that they are finding her current bank account through Social Security.

[dsc]

21. yes I got one

it will be deposited on the 17th

[mac56]

22. 3/17

[Politicub]

23. I received the non-response response

What does "we're working on this" even mean?

Payment Status - Not Available
We are unable to provide the status of your payment right now because:

We don't have enough information yet (we're working on this), or
You're not eligible for a payment.

[FakeNoose]

38. I got the same response, and i know why

I haven't sent in my tax returns yet.

[Croney]

24. It says I'm eligible and when they know the date they'll update the site.

[Kali]

25. good post

I agree and totally relate to your questions! so frustrating the way they want the info input and the stupid generic replies. half the time I get an error message, something like you are denied access to this server, the rest of the time I get the "Payment Status - Not Available

We are unable to provide the status of your payment right now because:

We don't have enough information yet (we're working on this), or
You're not eligible for a payment."

blah blah


I got the first payment direct deposit to my account, the second one came as an annoying to use debit card, no idea why. who knows what will happen this time? nobody in the family has got theirs yet this time.

[Towlie]

29. Getting denied access for 24 hours at least suggests that they know who you are.

 
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If you get locked out then they at least recognize your SS number. But it could mean that they didn't like the rest of what you entered and suspect that you're an imposter.

[Kali]

40. it wasn't a lock out, just a strange glitch

started over just fine, but keep getting that regular non-message of no info

[LexVegas]

28. I got a date. nt

[Towlie]

31. And it was Wednesday, 3/17, right? It seems that's what everyone else got.

 
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[LexVegas]

35. Correct. nt

[Ocelot II]

30. Yes, direct deposit on 3/17.

Entered SS with no dashes, and date including the forward slashes in the format as instructed, xx/xx/xxxx. I used the street address my computer remembered from last time.

[pnwest]

32. soc sec with NO dashes. DOB WITH slashes. cont'd

Use the address as it appears on the last tax return you've submitted - that has been processed! Do not use the address on your 20-20 return if you haven't rec'd your refund yet. Use the address on the last return for which you've received your refund.

With those three things in that format you should be able to access your info.

[Freddie]

34. Yes 3/17 & the last 4 digits of the bank acct

[marie999]

36. I think, like the last time, the date they are using isn't real.

It will be for some people, but almost everyone I know was told the same date last time and some didn't get their checks until 3 weeks after that date.

[babydollhead]

41. 3/17

[Beringia]

42. I got unable to provide status right now sometimes and other times denied access

We are unable to provide the status of your payment right now because:
We don't have enough information yet (we're working on this), or You're not eligible for a payment.

It seems to come up both ways even when I enter the same address. Sometimes the address is accepted and sometimes not. Sometimes a variation of the address works and sometimes not. No rhyme or reason to it that I can tell.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

43. Used my android phone

SS With dash's

Regular type on street name and number

Zip

Payment due on or about the 17th

[Wingus Dingus]

45. My son got the "status not available" message--

not sure what is up with that.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

46. The first time I tried I got status not available.

I tried again an hour or so ago and was told I'll get it on the 17th.

I did enter my SS with dashes. and used MM/DD/YYYY format for my date of birth.

Address was street number name of street.

[LisaL]

50. I keep getting status not available.

I know I am eligible, and I got the first two payments.

[SammyWinstonJack]

63. I got the same and know I'm eligible. Got the 1st two right away.

[a kennedy]

54. I had started this topic, and I think it should go here......

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215232149

[meadowlander]

58. No. They don't understand me at all.

They acknowledge I exist and that I entered my information correctly but they can't tell me why I've never received any of the payments and there's no human being i can contact to follow up with.

I'm assuming they just haven't processed my last three tax returns but who knows.

[msfiddlestix]

59. Yes I got an immediate response after plugging the info requested

I plugged in the info, but I don't remember the formatting. I feel like everything auto filled. and the response was immediate stating that I'm to receive my funds on the 17th.

[JI7]

60. I got access denied. YOu don't have permisson to access this site Message

[Pinback]

64. Still no luck - 7:20 pm ET on 3/17

The tax return information you entered does not match our records; or
You have already accessed the system the maximum number of times today.

What gives? They sure didn't have any trouble sending me a bunch of useless paper forms to file quarterly estimated taxes (which we don't need to do since we don't meet their criteria for last year). Irritating.

[GoCubsGo]

65. I didn't even bother.

My credit union sent an e-mail notifying me that it had been deposited, something they didn't do with the previous stimulus checks. I just got my paper notification for the $600 check a few days ago. Trump left a big fucking mess, and it's not surprising that he turned the IRS into a pile of shit, too.